Katarina Johnson-Thompson Quotes
Beijing was a huge slap in the face, and it forced me to look at myself. I have to realise that this is my life.
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When I was growing up, skateboarding was big and basketball was big.
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I have a vernacular house on the seaside in Northumberland and an Edwardian semi in south Manchester. They're both exactly as big as they need to be. I can't be doing with an ostentatious, big house - you can only be in one room at a time.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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Socialism requires that government becomes your god.
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'RoboCop,' when that came out, was like the best comic book movie ever, and it's not based on a comic book.
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Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
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I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.
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I like to discover new things.
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I don't know that much about who directs what movies, but I'm definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.
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I feel I'm a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I'm transferring that same concept to the people I photograph.
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I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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Man should know from this rule that he is cut off from truth.
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When it comes to portfolios, my personal advice is for anyone who can, put money into forestry or farmland. Long term, you would probably never come near their returns in the stock market. In the world that I see, land is golden.
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I think, in writing a memoir, you kind of give order to your life.
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I never feel particularly comfortable holding a gun, but when you're playing somebody who lived in the frontier southwest, guns are a part of their life. Anyone who lives on land has a gun.
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Beijing was a huge slap in the face, and it forced me to look at myself. I have to realise that this is my life.
