Katarina Johnson-Thompson Quotes
For a long time, I thought it was all down to dedication, hard work, and visualising doing well - that worked for a bit, but then it stopped. I've realised you have to be more practical and mature to make things actually happen.
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I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
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Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.
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I never had plastic surgery. I had a nose procedure done because I had to. I had no cartilage in my nose; I have a piece of cartilage from my ear put into my nose. I had a medical procedure done. I have no plastic in my nose.
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.
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It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.
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In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesting to see what would happen to a High Court judge if he were forced to follow the true poetic formula, doing the job for love, being forced into pubs for relief.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
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Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.
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I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.
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Kids will tease you for just about anything.
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You don't talk to a linguist without having what you say taken down and used in evidence against you at some point in time.
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On right-to-life, see the Republicans flee from Todd Akin, who committed a gaffe while restating his support for what has been a plank of the Republican platform since 1980.
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As Akins observes, it is not the point of our sensory systems that they should detect 'basic' or 'natural' properties of the environment, but that they should serve our 'narcissistic' purposes in staying alive; nature doesn't build epistemic engines.
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For a long time, I thought it was all down to dedication, hard work, and visualising doing well - that worked for a bit, but then it stopped. I've realised you have to be more practical and mature to make things actually happen.
