Cathy Freeman Quotes
I lie around the floor with my cats Billy and Jazz or watch DVDs with my best friends.
Quotes to Explore
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I had never used the prefix 'Dr.' with my name, but when I started with NASA, I had to. Otherwise, I could not get past the secretaries.
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Self-esteem comes from who you have in your life. How you were raised. What you struggled with as a child.
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The whole voiceover world is new and different to me and quite challenging.
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I've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. At the time, when I sort of knew him, he was recording a song a day. I wondered if I could do that. So I wrote it.
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I'm just drawing it now. It's totally revolting. I'm sure you'll love it.
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I made friends with a boy who was a communist when I was 13 and that broadened my political views, but it also brought me into conflict with my father who was very Right-wing.
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There will be times when you just can't seem to land an acting job, and you feel like giving up. Don't! The only way to realise that dream is to keep working hard for it.
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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You can feel very strongly that someone doesn't like you. I think any model who didn't have the same sort of upbringing as me would find that very difficult. But I absolutely knew I was entitled. I never thought I was ugly - it never crossed my mind.
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TV can be a thread between all of us, and it can be a powerful tool to examine life and love and what we all have in common as humans.
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I give myself strength by staying away from any music.
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When I left the San Francisco DA's office, I went down to the Los Angeles district attorney's office, and I was able to try a tremendous amount - very serious cases and working in gang neighborhoods, impoverished neighborhoods - really make a difference and be impactful in those communities.
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Jay Z is building a range of businesses just on the strength of his brand. Lady Gaga has formed really interesting partnerships. Justin Bieber and his manager Scooter Braun are investing in a number of different companies and also promoting them in many ways.
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Oh gosh, I noticed dramatic changes in my body after I started doing yoga, but I also think you have to shake things up.
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Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves.
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I think, a lot of time, when I'm making art, I'm trying to get into a state of childlike play, where I'm not self-conscious; I'm not worried about what the outcome is going to be. I'm just having fun.
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My father was horrified by my movies, yet he lent me the money to make the early ones. And I paid him back with interest.
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My mother took my brother and I to a production of 'The Tempest', and it was in this very small - it could have been the basement of a church or a black box. The space was vast, but there were maybe 15 seats in the middle. Ariel came out wearing a nude sparkly thong and spike heels, and the muses had these gossamer see-through gowns on.
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Pure art exists only on the level of instant response to pure life
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My first toy was a box of transistors.
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Never forget that every living thing has a particular and needed job to do in the universal Plan and Purpose.
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I lie around the floor with my cats Billy and Jazz or watch DVDs with my best friends.
