Katarina Johnson-Thompson Quotes
Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
Quotes to Explore
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I loved the world of imagination.
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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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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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I used to love to create outfits, and I still do - I just don't have the time. How can you wear one thing and never wear it again? Even my wedding dress - I had a dress made that I could wear again. I'm a child of the depression, so I'm very, very practical.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read.
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'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
