Clare Balding Quotes

You come across words all the time that are everyday sexism. I was described as 'competently bossy' and 'bossily competent' by a male journalist, and I thought, 'Gosh, 'bossy' is never used of a man.'

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• Pregnancy is a very creative phase for me.

  

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• In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.

  

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• People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!

  

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• This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.

  

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• My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.

  

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• I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives, museums and libraries, sifting through ministerial and parish records, censuses, maps, microfilm, logs, and local histories.

  

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• I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.

  

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• The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'

  

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• Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.

  

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• I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.

  

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• I think that with 'The Vampire Diaries,' you never know what's going to happen, and I don't think the characters necessarily know, either. So you can only weigh so much, and then it might just come down to 'kill or be killed.'

  

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• If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related disease and disability as possible.

  

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• Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.

  

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• Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.

  

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• To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.

  

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• You know what it's like: you don't want to read your old books again. All you can see are the flaws, what you would do differently.

  

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• A press card does not provide you with an invisible shield. You're flesh and blood.

  

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• If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.

  

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• It's important for me who is at the table with me; the moment when everyone speaks to each other and everyone listens. If there's good food, it's much better.

  

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• God's Word does not say, "Call unto me, and you will thereby be trained into the happy art of knowing how to be denied. Ask, and you will learn sweet patience by getting nothing." Far from it. But it is definite, clear and positive: "Ask, and it shall be given unto you."

  

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• You come across words all the time that are everyday sexism. I was described as 'competently bossy' and 'bossily competent' by a male journalist, and I thought, 'Gosh, 'bossy' is never used of a man.'

  

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