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Clare Balding Quotes

When you're little, your father is your hero. Mine was. Then it all becomes more complicated.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: british
Birth: January 29, 1971

Topics

Father Hero You Complicated More

As a viewer, my own work elicits strong emotional reaction from me.

Work Me Strong My Own Reaction Own

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Marriage Heaven Earth Marriages Made

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Man Vanity Hard Some Obstinate Dies

When I'm done playing football, I just might be the couch potato dad.

Football Done Couch Playing Just

We made them drink poison last night and Saddam Hussein's soldiers and his great forces gave the Americans a lesson which will not be forgotten by history. Truly.

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

History Great Night Lesson Will

I was always attracted to music that moved people. Whether it be gospel, R&B, folk, hip-hop, pop, alternative rock - whatever moved people, whatever made a crowd just get lost in the moment.

Music Moment People Lost Rock Get

I remember when 'I'm Moving On' came out, and we got the response we did, I thought, 'Man, this could be for real.' That was the first time it dawned on me what we had.

Time Moving On Man Me Moving First

There's no doubt that what has emerged in the years after 9/11, unlike the situation in Britain, there were practices sanctioned in the U.S. that fall far below the standard of conduct that should have taken place. It is for the American system of government, in all of its branches, to address that. It is not for a British politician.

Douglas Alexander

Government American Doubt Fall Place

Humans merely share the earth. We can only protect the land, not own it.

Earth Land Protect Own Share Only

I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver.

Him Bus Driver Fired Bass He

I do write about race a lot, but I don't think writers - of any shade or background or whatever - have to write about certain subjects.

Colson Whitehead

Think Race Write Whatever Shade Any

I had to leave school at 14 because my father got injured in the mines and I had to support my family. I was an undertaker's assistant, then a plasterer, before doing my military service in the RAF. All the while, I was doing amateur dramatics and dreaming of getting a scholarship to the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

Family Father Service School Support

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