Clare Balding Quotes

Being made to feel like an irrelevant child was probably an asset. Benign negligence is not a bad parental attitude or at least a cross between a benevolent dictator and benign negligence - you should just let kids crack on with it.

Clare Balding

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When I was younger, I was always willing to tell a joke and play out a scene. I would get sticks and pretend they were light sabers. I think it was just at a young age, I was so willing to jump up and perform a little play at the family picnic.

Sufe Bradshaw

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Karate probably gave me an incredibly deep awareness of all the parts of me, my flexibility, and the nimble qualities I'm doing, even if they're unconscious.

Simon Helberg

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My mother and father could not handle even me being gay. We never talked about it, really.

Rufus Wainwright

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I always wanted to play characters, and that was definitely one - a Russian spy.

Lucas Till

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I don't wear heels.

Jourdan Dunn

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So for me, it can be theatre or being in L.A. or in some other part of the world, as long as I can explore storytelling and human connection through storytelling, I'm quite content.

Dilshad Vadsaria

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I have seen journals with good financial backing and editorial support die because they looked so bad nobody wanted to publish them.

Denis Dutton

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The Everton goal was very important. It was the one that got us through, and it was great to go into the crowd and celebrate with the fans.

Anthony Martial

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I grew up in New York City and in London.

Alissa Quart

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Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all architectural creations: building cities for people to live in.

Philip Johnson

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America pays its bills. It always has. It always will. The fact that Washington is now debating whether to honor its debts and obligations, then, should come as a surprise. But playing political football with a necessary vote to raise the nation's debt ceiling has become as predictable as a Twitter rant from Charlie Sheen.

Peter Welch

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Strangely, you know, my parents, who left Poland separately and, you know, divorced, ended up marrying other people. But then they met again abroad, and they got together again.

Pawel Pawlikowski

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