Clare Balding Quotes
I've had so many things, good and bad, said about me. I'm way beyond worrying about what people say.

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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants and natives, and everyone circulated.
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I had to work with a psychiatrist.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember... it's not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we do not.
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I was reading scripts, doing coverage, for CAA. Reading hundreds and hundreds of scripts across the board, from blind submissions to 'Brokeback Mountain'. It was not always a pleasant task but something, in hindsight, I'm glad I did.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
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Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.
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Proust is a huge author for me.
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
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My mother died in 2005. She was 61 years old.
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My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.
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Rocco paid me 35 bucks a week at Murray's Inn in South Jersey. People started asking Rocco to have me sing.
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The voice of women has a special role and a special soul force in the struggle for a nonviolent world.
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I've had so many things, good and bad, said about me. I'm way beyond worrying about what people say.