Katarina Johnson-Thompson Quotes
Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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I loved the world of imagination.
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There are a lot of things that I have not shared that I will never share. I do have a personal private life.
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You know you've made your mark when you're on the cover of a videogame.
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
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When I started out, there was so much work that I couldn't think of doing anything else. I would go for recordings by 8.30 A.M., that, too, in trains. I used to come home at night. I was travelling alone everywhere.
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The fact we don't have a lunar base has nothing to do with the technology. It has to do with public commitment and societal support.
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I do not consider myself beautiful.
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As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different.
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It's always cool to go to different places and see what's really out there in the world.
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I've got a couple of Harleys and a couple of Ducatis.
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How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?
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I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline.
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Even city people have ancestors who had their hands in the dirt.
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It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're different.
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Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs. A dog can't communicate his thoughts except with gestures.
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I realized I didn't want to be a photographer. I gave it up, but I still worked that job in the restaurant and I found myself constantly hanging out in the kitchen.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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There's nothing wrong with looking like a woman and going in the workplace and doing everything a man can do but looking 1,000 percent like a lady.
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Doing the thing you are scared of is much harder than not being afraid of anything. It is easy to be brave. It is not so easy to be scared and do a brave thing anyway.
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I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
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I was trying to get an audition for 'Walker, Texas Ranger' and they wouldn't see me. And I was crestfallen, because I really needed money. And to be told you're not good enough to be seen by 'Walker, Texas Ranger' is a tough blow.
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We are always rushing to an appointment or trying to meet a deadline.
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It is some kind of miracle that all knitting is constructed of only two stitches: knit and purl. Sure, you throw in some yarn overs, and sometimes you knit the stitches out of order, but when it really comes down to it, knitting is simplicity. The most incredible gossamer lace shawl ... the trickiest aran ... a humble sock ... each just made with knit and purl.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
