Katarina Johnson-Thompson Quotes
I played a lot of football, and I was a goalkeeper, but I didn't really like playing in goal.
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I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.
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It's cool because football, as much as it gives, it takes away a lot, too.
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I've lived most people's dream by playing football.
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I like happy endings.
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Pinochet and Barack Obama both have the same primary goal, and that's to be president and stay president as long as allowed.
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There's a plaque on our wall that says we've sold over 65 million albums, and I don't feel I've accomplished anything. I feel like I'm just getting started.
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When you're an actor, you're mollycoddled, and you're treated with kid gloves. Everyone is like, 'Can I get you some water?' or 'Can I put on your slippers?'
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I like to be left alone when I'm not working.
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If I'm made to pick one transcendent reading experience, then it was listening to Miss Sarzin as - if we'd been very, very good - she read the next chapter of 'The Hobbit' aloud to us.
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I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope, if you ramble off... As my friend Julius Lester says, 'A picture book is the essence of an experience.'
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With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I've worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia.
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May I hold myself in compassion. May I meet the suffering and ignorance of others with compassion.
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Thoughts of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they are grasped by the attention; if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing.
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I played a lot of football, and I was a goalkeeper, but I didn't really like playing in goal.
