Katarina Johnson-Thompson Quotes
You can only train three or four hours a day, so what do you do with the other 20 hours?
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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I started working out, eating a good diet, and just did everything I could that I thought would benefit me. I also started studying a lot harder in school. It matured me a remarkable amount and made me completely focused.
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I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.
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When I'm in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.
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We've tried to make a Superman movie where he does stuff and you go, 'Yeah, if I was Superman, that's what I'd do.' Even though he's an alien, he's more relatable, more human.
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You won't hear me talk about my politics, you won't hear me talk about my vegetarianism, you won't hear me comment on the Iraq war. You'll only hear me talk about being gay and being an actor. I am just public on those two issues.
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Part of the way the work world works is not so much creating a separation between your work and your free time, but creating the illusion of a separation between your work and your free time. Every day is the weekend for me, which means I'm always busy.
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We do not have the idea that all children are valuable parts of society. We only have the idea that our own children are.
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I've always dreamed of having an album. The problem is that it's just very difficult to make an album nowadays because through technology, music shifts so fast, especially electronic music. Once you make five songs, the first one you did is already old and you wished you would have put it out right away. So that's kind of the difficult part.
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Normally, I don't like explaining songs. I don't want to kill anyone's interpretation or the story they want to make for themselves.
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I got to say 'Hi' to Dolly Parton, which my mom thought was kind of cool.
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A lot of comedians do bits where they say, 'I was listening to this song, and this person said this, and you know how they say that?' And I thought it would work better if I actually had a DJ put that song lyric right there. It makes it more dynamic, and it's more energetic.
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No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
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I think Hugh Laurie is awesome. You just want to loathe that guy in 'House' because he is not a friendly person, but somehow or another, he is profoundly charming.
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All the musicians I loved growing up were men. I loved Leonard Cohen, Mick Jagger. I loved Alex Turner from the Arctic Monkeys. Even today, I love Van McCann from Catfish and the Bottlemen and Matt Healy from The 1975.
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You can oppose reparations all you want, but you got to know the facts. You really, really do.
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After being once in space, I was keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.
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You have to fight for your health and stay on top of it. Our bodies are meant to be healthy.
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Doing a kid's movie is fun when you have kids. You don't want to do kids' movies if you don't have kids. When you have kids, things change in your life.
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It drives me crazy when your parents try to read your mind. It's even worse when they try to read your mail.
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Let there be songs to fill the air.
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Sometimes, it's just your day, ... You get the breaks. You get the momentum going, that's what it's all about. Coming into this tournament, I had a good feeling.
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You can only train three or four hours a day, so what do you do with the other 20 hours?
