Katarina Johnson-Thompson Quotes
They're just my weaknesses. Everyone is just constantly talking to me about it. It doesn't help.
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I would love to be a singer if I had the talent for it. I'd love to be a graphic designer if I had the talent for it. Those are things I've always just admired - the work of other artists.
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Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego - its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
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I just write what I think is funny. I don't care who watches it.
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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
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I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life' to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.
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All the energy, all the pain, sweat and tears that go into it, the amount I had to put in to get me to where I had to play, it was more taxing on me physically and mentally than it was good for me.
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I was in love with my wife and she was in love with me. We got along wonderfully.
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In Windsor in the forties, and even up into the fifties and sixties, if you were black, you had to sit in the balcony of the theatres, and you couldn't buy property in most places.
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I decided to be heterosexual because I felt like that's the life God intended me to live.
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As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.
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We can overcome evil with greater good.
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Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.
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The moment in which you make somebody laugh, you're only doing it to make them laugh and be happy. Then afterward you can be like, 'Oh, I just want the attention. I feel so good that everybody's listening to me and I got the approval that I need.'
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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I've always been interested in how the individual comes to know and accept him or herself, which I think has been hard for me.
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President Obama is a utopian at heart. He wants to improve the lives of the downtrodden, which is a good thing. But, he doesn't understand that damaging the free marketplace in pursuit of 'social justice' will eventually harm those whom he wants to help. The nation's crushing debt is a tsunami brewing off shore.
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I never wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a book illustrator. I used to hurry home from school and draw.
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I loved the challenge of being able to take a character who could be thrown away as 'crazy' and making her identifiable to the audience - also, to give her a vulnerability that people would cheer for.
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As an actor, you're never busy enough.
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They're just my weaknesses. Everyone is just constantly talking to me about it. It doesn't help.
