Quotes by Clare Balding

Clare Balding

A lot of interviewers are looking for the dark side. They want to know about the depths of your despair and fear.

Dark

Depth

Despair

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.

Attitude

Children

Kids

Dad is a really surprising guy. Every time I think he’s going to be useless, he ends up doing something amazing and saying exactly the right thing.

Dad

Guy

Thinking

Fitting in is boring. But it takes you nearly your whole life to work that out.

Boring

Fitting

Whole Life

I am many things, but one of the things I am is a lesbian.

I believe that horses bring out the best in us. They judge us not by how we look, what we’re wearing or how powerful or rich we are, they judge us in terms of sensitivity, consistency, and patience. They demand standards of behavior and levels of kindness that we, as humans, then strive to maintain.

Horse

Kindness

Powerful

I cannot be a placard waver for every campaign; that’s why I have mostly kept quiet about gay marriage.

Campaigns

Gay

Gay Marriage

I didn’t just grow up with horses; I wanted to be one.

Growing Up

Grows

Horse

I don’t make decisions for money or popularity. I do things because they’re right for me, and they’re interesting and challenging.

Challenges

Decision

Interesting

I felt like a misfit at school, and I think that’s quite common.

Common

School

Thinking

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Abuse

Adjectives

Ambitious

Apology

Attitude

Awful

Believe

Boring

Brain

Breaking Down

Campaigns

Car

Challenges

Children

Common

Cycling

Dad

Dark

Decision

Depth

Despair

Extraordinary Person

Fascinated

Fighting

Fitting

Games

Gay

Gay Marriage

Golf

Good Food

Graffiti

Growing Up

Grows

Guy

Hate

Helping

Homophobic

Horse

Hungry

I Hate

Important

Interesting

Kids

Kindness

Knitting

Laughing

Minutes

Mirrors

Needs

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Quotes by Clare Balding

Clare Balding

A lot of interviewers are looking for the dark side. They want to know about the depths of your despair and fear.

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.

Dad is a really surprising guy. Every time I think he’s going to be useless, he ends up doing something amazing and saying exactly the right thing.

Fitting in is boring. But it takes you nearly your whole life to work that out.

I am many things, but one of the things I am is a lesbian.

I cannot be a placard waver for every campaign; that’s why I have mostly kept quiet about gay marriage.

I didn’t just grow up with horses; I wanted to be one.

I don’t make decisions for money or popularity. I do things because they’re right for me, and they’re interesting and challenging.

I felt like a misfit at school, and I think that’s quite common.

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