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 do miss competition, but I get to travel a little bit on my own terms, which is a little bit different. And I get the chance to walk around, explore, and not have to save my energy for the match days.
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It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms.
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I love Les Beaux Peeps. Everyone in that band works together really well. I used to go out to see bands a lot; now it seems there just aren't any I like.
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When I was 12 or 13, I realised I was good, but I never knew how far I'd get.
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I'm working on my house and playing with my fire pit and kind of just hanging around and making my home feel homey.
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I didn't just grow up with horses; I wanted to be one.
