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

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Source : "Clare Balding: 'You can't be flavour of the month for more than a month'". Interview With Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2012.

Clare Balding

#Interesting Quotes #Decision Quotes #Challenges Quotes

“To see the light we must first acknowledge that we are in the dark.”
“Music does affect your opinions. Plato is supposed to have said "It's very dangerous to allow the wrong kind of music into the republic."”
“When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.”
“We travel because we do not know. We know that we do not know the best before we start. That is why we start. But we forget that we do not know the worst either. That is why we come back.”
“Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.”
“The education of the present race of females is not very favorable to domestic happiness. For my own part, I call education, not that which smothers a woman with accomplishments, but that which tends to consolidate a firm and regular system of character; that which tends to form a friend, a companion, and a wife.”
“There are cases in which the greatest daring is the greatest wisdom.”
“My gut feeling is that paper and ink are going to be with us for a long time yet, and in substantial quantities, though certainly books are now going to be available in other forms.”

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