Evonne Goolagong Cawley Quotes
Because I've had time off, I've learned to appreciate tennis more - to put something back into it.
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I started modelling when I was 13, so I learned a lot of things. I actually love doing make-up on other people, too.
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I can say I love working with women. Film is a man's world, and I really appreciate the opportunity to collaborate with women, especially young women.
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People often ask me why I don't take up more heroine-oriented roles. My question is, 'Where are these roles?' I really appreciate actresses who sign only films with meaty roles. However, there aren't too many of them. The industry is simply male-dominated.
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One thing I've learned is that I'm not the owner of my talent; I'm the manager of it.
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I was very lucky in as much as I played a lot of tennis.
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One of the things I was so glad that happened to me on Knots was that I learned to relax.
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I never thought tennis was going to give me so much satisfaction.
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I used to have so many opinions before I learned the facts.
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I appreciate everything that has been done for me. After a difficult start, I've just followed my dreams.
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I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar.
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I learned mainly through television, but I learned how to do mosaic, where you can buy stones or things of that nature. But also where you bust the tile to decorate pots for flowers or table tops. Lots of different things. Wherever you want it, you can mosaic just about anything. It took me about two weeks to do a big birdbath.
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The Arab world needs to appreciate that legitimate historical claims and modern necessities are what make Israel the homeland of the Jewish people.
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The brain isn't like the heart. They learned how to transplant a heart. The brain is more complex.
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I have learned that acting is not about beauty.
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To win a gold medal at Olympic Games has long been my dream ever since I started my career as a table tennis player.
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I have to use other things to help my tennis, like my brain. But I believe that, even when your muscles are not so fast, with the brain and with concentration you can compensate.
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Back in East St. Louis, tennis wasn't the real thing. If you weren't playing baseball, basketball, football, you were kind of on the outside.
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I've been kicked in the teeth more times in tennis than the law ought to allow.
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I am a much happier 27-year-old than I was at 20 years old. I am so fortunate because I have an amazing family, amazing friends and a great support system. I think at 27 it is much easier for me to look at life and appreciate what I have rather than stressing about the little things day to day.
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Even clingfilm - if it's gone over a salad bowl, take it off, use it again. I wash out carrier bags; I save brown paper from parcels. I save string; I save ribbons. I separate all my bits and pieces.
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If there was ever any truth to the trickle-down theory, the only evidence of it I've ever seen was in that period of 1960 to 1965. All of sudden they were handing out major label recording contracts like they were coming in Cracker Jack boxes.
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[In China at that time:] The penalty for adultery is death by strangulation. Mai-da's mother has added the following note to this section; 'Adultery is a feminine vice. Copulation on the man's part is not his wife's concern, unless he sires a child. Then she must accept the child as one of his homestead.
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That's all you need to know about Godspeed. Although you should also know this. I am Eldest.
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Because I've had time off, I've learned to appreciate tennis more - to put something back into it.
