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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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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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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Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention.
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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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I have the great good fortune that one of my collaborators in work, Anne Case, is also my collaborator in life.
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It's rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that to be the case for myself, I was probably the worst closer out there and I didn't find that was true of my top super stars either.
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I grew up in Brooklyn.
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I write only for my shadow which is cast on the wall in front of the light. I must introduce myself to it.
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The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.
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I didn't just grow up with horses; I wanted to be one.
