Katarina Johnson-Thompson Quotes
When I was a kid, I always had my hair in two plaits. But for dancing, I had to have it in a bun because I did ballet.
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Your agent should be invested in the success of your book past the contract stage. After all, if it sells well, she's going to be getting 15 percent of every dime you make. She can be your best advocate in fighting for your book - not just with editing and the cover, but with marketing and sales as well.
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Even when I was making the first 'Paranormal Activity,' I didn't tell anyone I was making it, not my friends or neighbors or co-workers. I just kind of found that there was nothing to gain by announcing to the world that you're doing something.
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I'm old enough to remember in the 1930s and the 1940s when thrift, frugality, was considered an important virtue.
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I'm trying hard to keep my Australian accent. My mom would disown me if I didn't.
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Evolution happens in nature and in individuals. I want to participate actively in its happening within me.
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I get asked to comment a lot on inequality in cycling, but for me it has never been an issue. Everything has always been equal on the track, and the male and female riders are all part of the same team, and we all mix freely.
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Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
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Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It's not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. It's about the fact that I really do enjoy it.
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I love to read. And right now I'm on my last hundred pages of 'The Corrections' by Jonathan Franzen, and I really enjoyed it. His writing is just - he's one of those writers where you just go, 'There are people just meant to be novel writers.'
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They're really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over.
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Hispanic unemployment is higher than the national average and when the federal government is killing small businesses and killing jobs it is hurting the future of the Hispanic community and we need to carry that message.
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Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.
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I liked to play dress-up.
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I hope there are going to be plenty of more roles to come.
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When I get into the studio, I write from my heart.
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I don't know of a soul who packed more living into 72 years than Charles Lindbergh did.
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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
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I'm happy in the UK. I absolutely love it and I've finally got a great group of friends. I've got a lovely little flat and my work's here.
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I think it's a lot richer than what we call fleshy improv, I think it's very funny, puppet improv and fleshy improv.
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I always knew that I wanted to do something in business and I prepared myself for that.
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As football players, our bodies know exactly what time of year it is and what we need to be doing.
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A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.
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When I was a kid, I always had my hair in two plaits. But for dancing, I had to have it in a bun because I did ballet.
