Clare Balding Quotes
Women's sport helps break down a lot of barriers for women in other areas, whether in religion or politics.
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My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.
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'Cold Case Files' and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can't stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can't fit on a bumper sticker.
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It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the reasons why they live shorter lives than people without mental illness. Even in the best-resourced countries in the world, this life expectancy gap is as much as 20 years. In the developing countries of the world, this gap is even larger.
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Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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People think I'm just an old Luddite, but that's untrue. I buy every new gizmo as it comes out, play with it until I understand how it works, and then give it away.
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During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
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I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.
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The guy who kind of identified as my dad was my dad's brother, who was the second person my mom married.
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
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The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact that the substantive clauses of that Constitution are enforced by individuals independent of and not beholden to the elected branches.
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When we cover a Chainsmokers song in our live show with ZBB, people are dancing and going crazy.
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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
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When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?
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I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
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As for adjustments, I think every relationship changes every day.
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When I very first started out, I had that arrogance of youth.
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I love doing period work, like all the trappings and the wigs and everything. It really helps when it's such a different world that you're immersing yourself in; it helps to get into the story, I think, and step into that different place.
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The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.
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We have to have a version of our own story that we keep telling ourselves that allows us to get up in the morning. This version of yourself is what you sell to yourself. I think it necessarily includes ... not looking at certain things. Everybody's got some blind spot.
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Women's sport helps break down a lot of barriers for women in other areas, whether in religion or politics.
