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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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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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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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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The best way to meditate is through meditation itself.
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In my life, there have always been people who guided my path, towards the school, towards this company. I didn't know about any of it. I didn't have a plan. It's good fortune and generosity from other people that have given me all I have today.
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Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it.
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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
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I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.
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I grew up on 'Battle of the Planets.'
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We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes.
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I went to a theater arts school, so I'm interested in many different projects, whether it be film, television or even live theater. I'm a performer. That's what I do. That's what I want to do.
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In the lead-up to competitions, I just watch box sets and DVDs and play 'Candy Crush.'
