Clare Balding Quotes
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I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.
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In terms of achievement, the pride is very important to me. It keeps me going every day. The money is always second to me.
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.
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My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.
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More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right.
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The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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I have been working since I was 11 on everything including period dramas.
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I think I'm like a free spirit.
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I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?
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I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
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Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old Scripture-reader who spent a part of his time in the parish of Killinane, teaching such scholars as he could find to read their own language in the hope that they might turn to the only book then being printed in Irish, the Bible.
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People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with.
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Jessica Jackley has a gift for making people want to fork over their cash. To total strangers. Far, far away.
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I have to prove everything. Especially when you're coming from an off year after the injuries, and you come back, and you have to prove a lot of things to the fans, to the team, to your teammates, to the sport. You have to prove a lot of things out there on the field.
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I loved Catholic school. I didn't like being beeped at by old pervs at the gas station because I was wearing a plaid skirt, though. It's like, do you think I'm going to stop and give you my phone number?
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I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.
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Seeing the road show of 'A Chorus Line' in 1977 at the Orpheum Theater in downtown Memphis was a life-changing event for me: there were gay people, on the stage, and they all lived in New York.
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Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any little corner of it, the received notions and ideas seem to crumple up and fall to pieces - as far as language goes, at any rate.
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You end up giving up half your salary every time you make a movie because you need the money to make the movie you have in your head.
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I didn't just grow up with horses; I wanted to be one.
