Katarina Johnson-Thompson Quotes
I always have a book that I write during competition. I need it with me, just to read back and reflect and look forward. If I'm feeling anxious, it helps me.
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I think I'm a lot like other moms out there who feel like if we don't have the pecan pie we have every year, then it just won't be Christmas.
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I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.
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I try to avoid saying 'fantastic' too often and 'obviously' is a dangerous word for all broadcasters.
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I'm a good Catholic boy.
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I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.
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I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
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You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.
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My Mt. Rushmore of hero worship would include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marcus Aurelius, Frank Sinatra and Barry White.
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One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
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It's true that I have always been very comfortable with numbers.
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I started off thinking that I just needed one shot to prove myself, but then I realised that I was only going to learn about acting by doing it.
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Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.
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Acting is a very big part of what human beings do. A dog is always a dog, but we're always changing.
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Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
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One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty.
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As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed.
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I've always found that no matter how much you spend on a movie - you can spend sixty dollars or sixty million dollars - if the movie's good, it's good.
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I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson.
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When any institution becomes large and compartmentalized, with departments and subdepartments, then the conscience of the institution will often become so fragmented and diluted as to be virtually nonexistent, and the organization becomes inherently evil.
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A week or so ago I did a two hour book review in Baltimore Maryland.
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I always have a book that I write during competition. I need it with me, just to read back and reflect and look forward. If I'm feeling anxious, it helps me.
