Clare Balding Quotes

If you look back at British history, women being allowed to play sport in schools meant they had to change their clothing. They couldn't be running around in their long skirts and corsets, because you can't.

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• When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.

  

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• My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.

  

  Aaron Neville
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• Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.

  

  Larry Elder
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• It's a different way of getting across an emotion. You're trying to get it across to the animator because the animator is inspired by the voicetrack in terms of how to animate the character.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
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• Researchers looked at news programs on major broadcast and cable networks between 2008 and 2012 and found that of those labeled as domestic terrorists, 81% were identifiable as Muslims - this despite the fact that FBI reports from the period studied revealed that only 6% of domestic terrorist suspects were Muslim.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
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• Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
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• I could go and make commercials left and right and pretend like I am a celebrity, but that is not me.

  

  Marat Safin
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• We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Time
  • Good
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• My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.

  

  Umberto Eco
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• I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.

  

  Illeana Douglas
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• I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.

  

  Hannah Simone
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• I love movies, and if the right thing comes along I'm so interested.

  

  Rachel Stevens
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• Hear the other side.

  

  Saint Augustine
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• I want to be an activist professor.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
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• I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to.

  

  Zig Ziglar
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• I've had a fast track to who I want to be. I know all of my friends are struggling to what to pick in college, and I've been given a fast pass to kick start my future.

  

  Maisie Williams
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• Contrary to common belief, Christian fiction did not begin with Catherine Marshall, Janette Oke, or Frank Peretti.

  

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• I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do.

  

  Jacki Weaver
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• Nelson, about Harry 'I saw him, eventually,' Nelson says, 'as a loser, who never found his niche and floated along on Mom's money, which was money her father made. ... But being a loser wasn't the way my father saw himself. He saw himself as a winner, and until I was twelve or so I saw him the same way.'

  

  John Updike
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• An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
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• I always do a mental audit at the end of the week to make sure I'm balancing time between my career and my personal life.

  

  Jill Wagner
  • Life
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• there is this malign curse laid on dipsomaniacs. That they must absolutely have a drink: in order to feel strong enough to stop drinking.

  

  Caitlin Thomas
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• The Federal Reserve's job is to do the right thing, to take the long-run interest of the economy to heart, and that sometimes means being unpopular. But we have to do the right thing.

  

  Ben Bernanke
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• If you look back at British history, women being allowed to play sport in schools meant they had to change their clothing. They couldn't be running around in their long skirts and corsets, because you can't.

  

  Clare Balding
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