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.'Clare Balding
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Pregnancy is a very creative phase for me.
Natalie Massenet -
In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.
Jack Horner -
People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
L'Wren Scott -
This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
T. C. Boyle -
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.
Lake Bell -
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.
Hannah Kent
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
Raf Simons -
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.'
Daniel Craig -
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.
Frances Beinecke -
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.
S. Jay Olshansky -
Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
Manuel Puig -
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.
P. J. O'Rourke
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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.
Ramakrishna -
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.
Irvine Welsh -
Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
Tamsin Egerton -
Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.
Madeline Kahn -
I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.
Patricia Ireland -
If Iraq had succeeded in spray-drying anthrax spores to extend their life and lethality, that would have been among the most important secrets of its wide-ranging weapons program.
Barton Gellman
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My involvement in the political arena is to make sure there's a place for culture.
Yo-Yo Ma -
I always wanted to host a show, throw whipped-cream pies. Theater is not my cup of tea.
Doug Davidson -
While at Chicago my interest in the new field of particle physics was stimulated by a course given by Gell- Mann, who was developing his ideas about Strangeness at the time.
James Cronin -
Were they, for some purpose almost too cunning for belief, only disguised as themselves?
T. H. White -
I didn't even realize I was writing songs - I thought I was just being witty and sarcastic.
Halsey -
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.'
Clare Balding