Katarina Johnson-Thompson Quotes
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Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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It's been so amazing. I've always struggled with this barrier that I felt like I'd had up until blogging came along. Just one comment from somebody really sparks something in me. It doesn't need to be this huge war between me and the listeners anymore. I really thrive on that.
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I don't get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.
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Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
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I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.
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I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
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Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.
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I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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When I did 'The Cell' - no matter what you think of that movie, because I have my opinions of it too - it was, you know, I still have nightmares from the research that I did. Not from playing the part, just from the research.
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I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.
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I'm very happy with what I've accomplished, but we're going for more.
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You have to be brave when you've got a kid.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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As is well known, 'McCarthyism' was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion.
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You create a world away from home and make new rooms for yourself. But when you arrive back home in your old rooms, the world you've made for yourself ceases to be real. Everything seems to crumble. Anyone who's been sent away to boarding school can understand that.
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The American people want to pay attention to serious ideas again. Our founding was built by people who were political philosophers, and we need to get back to that, away from this kind of cheap political rhetoric of Right and Left.
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It's perfectly O.K. to not be completely predictable. I am a person, and I have individual opinions that may not line up ideologically.
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If it's scary, it's supposed to be scary. If it's funny, it's supposed to be funny. That's all I try to do.
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I have absolutely no dancing background. I think I took one swing class when I was in college, with a friend of mine. I think I went twice.
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Mum is the girliest of them all, but she ended up with me, the tomboy.
