Clare Balding Quotes
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I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.
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Ultimately, I'm not the most prolific person, but I've been doing this for a long time, and I keep on putting out music. The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.
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It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.
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Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.
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I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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I have been called 'The American De Maupassant.' Well, I never wrote a filthy word in my life, and I don't like to be compared to a filthy writer.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.
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I tend to stay away from the comics.
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I believe that all men and women will be saved.
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What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.
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When you don't take into account the way ecological systems work, then you do damage.
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The worst thing people ever say is that 'I can't afford to have kids!' It's selfish, and what infuriates me is when people say they can't do stuff they like go on holidays and buy cars when they have kids. You can - you find the money, you've just got to work harder for it.
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I'm not a doom-and-gloom person. But I think there is a difference between transcendence and denial, and much of the Western world is in major denial today.
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Your life is a blank page. You write on it.
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I think all kids should have something they feels is theirs.
