Katarina Johnson-Thompson Quotes
In the lead-up to competitions, I just watch box sets and DVDs and play 'Candy Crush.'
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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I remember I was a little girl when Elizabeth Taylor stole Eddie Fisher from America's Sweetheart, Debbie Reynolds, and the reaction back then was enormous! And Angelina Jolie was in trouble, too, for taking a husband away from another America's Sweetheart. Don't take husbands from America's Sweethearts.
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I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that's not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners?
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You don't implement change easily in Japan unless you explain very clearly why you need to do this change, how you're going to do this change and what's going to be the outcome of this change. If you offset or you forget to explain one of these three steps you're not going to do it.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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Any time you challenge a big powerful person or special interest, there's going to be blowback.
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One of the advantages of this found footage format is that you can have deliberately badly composed frames. Here we can put a camera in the weirdest angle and it kind of throws you off. You never know what you are supposed to be paying attention to. It's deliberate chaos.
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My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.
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For my life, I need to make my own choices.
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As a black woman, there's so much pride and communication through hair. It's naturally something that you are excited to embellish on and be creative about.
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It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.
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'Haven't you heard that this house belongs to an ogre who eats little children?'
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Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.
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What's profound and exciting is the way young people are taking advantage of the fact that the Internet enables everyone to have a megaphone. It enables everyone to stand up and say, 'I deserve to be heard, and I demand that you listen.'
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In the lead-up to competitions, I just watch box sets and DVDs and play 'Candy Crush.'
