Clare Balding Quotes
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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
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I love the idea of thinking of cinema as not that far from music. A lot of my favourite movie makers, the way they move their cameras or the way they cut just feel very musical - even if the movies have no music in them at all.
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Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.
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My advice to anyone would be to focus on your current job and be the best at it. The rest will take care of itself.
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I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
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Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.
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Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something I loved to do. I'm a mechanical engineer by training, and I loved it. I still do. My son is a nuclear engineer at MIT, a junior, and I get the same vibe from him. Your work has to be compelling. You spend a lot of time doing it.
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I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
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The first job of a writer is to be honest.
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Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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I am a believer in the journey and enjoying the journey.
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Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.
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There's nothing unclassy about being naked, if it's appropriate.
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Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
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If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.
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If you've never tasted what it's like to get up in the morning and be pleased to go to work, you don't know what you're missing.
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Most people spend their whole lives looking for the right job. There are others who never get an opportunity to do work that fulfils them.
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Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn't work today.
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Fitting in is boring. But it takes you nearly your whole life to work that out.
