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.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.
-
Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
-
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.
-
Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
-
I could go and make commercials left and right and pretend like I am a celebrity, but that is not me.
-
We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
-
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.
-
I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.
-
I love movies, and if the right thing comes along I'm so interested.
-
I want to be an activist professor.
-
I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to.
-
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.
-
Contrary to common belief, Christian fiction did not begin with Catherine Marshall, Janette Oke, or Frank Peretti.
-
Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
-
Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.
-
Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
-
It's a little strange when part of your family is in the public eye, and you're being put into a box that you're not necessarily in. That's when it starts to feel a bit odd: When you're being told who you are, but it's incorrect.
-
I cannot always write at the same time, in the same place. I work, travel and have a vigorous family life. If I'm stranded in an airport lobby - I write. If I have to wait in a doctor's office - I write. If I have a morning or evening to myself - I write.
-
Secrets are more powerful when people know you've got them," said Mr. Sutton. "You show them the tiniest edge of your secret, but the rest you keep under wraps.
-
No hero in your tragedy,No daring in your escape,No salutes for your surrender,Nothing noble in your fate,Christ, what have you done? - The Pass (1989)
-
In the '80s I started running, staying in shape.
-
Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way.
-
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.
