Clare Balding Quotes
When you're little, your father is your hero. Mine was. Then it all becomes more complicated.
Quotes to Explore
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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I thought it's very funny that I ended up as a voiceover guy because when I started out as an actor, I had a very strong Long Island accent.
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There's millions of gay people in the world. In 2011, you've got to hide that you're gay? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, be real.
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Fall 2013 was inspired by the 1970s equestrian lifestyle. I wanted to incorporate the moody and romantic - intricate baroque detailing and classic menswear elements - with something tougher and edgier in a nod to London's rock n' roll underground.
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A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you cook it. Before you start anything, read through the entire recipe once.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking.
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I am not gay; I don't have a relationship with Ricky Martin.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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The Clinton Administration has turned out to be a boon. I knew that he would be wonderful, I just knew it from the beginning. From Arkansas? Shoot.
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Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
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Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton and I were the first female headliners, where we would book our own opening acts. Before that, it was a standing joke that it was more like we had 'pretty little girl singers' opening for a male headliner.
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People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.
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I have never done a thriller, and it will just be really fun for me to heave and pant and run and climb and break windows and scream every once in a while.
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I was a stand-up comedian for 10 years, if you can believe it. And I gave it up at age 22.
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I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.
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My mother's family raised grains and crops. My father's grew sugarcane and mangos. So I knew more about the basics of farming than of acting.
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I believe the path to a long career is to keep the audience guessing. Daniel Day Lewis is my absolute hero from that point of view. I literally will pay to see anything he does because I know it's going to be something different than I have already seen.
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If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
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When you're little, your father is your hero. Mine was. Then it all becomes more complicated.
