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 decided I would go to NYU so I could get into the comedy world and have legit housing, and my parents would not have trusted investing in a straight-up comedy career.
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I feel like every time I write a song, it feels like the first time I wrote a song. It's just as hard. It doesn't get easier, but that's why I love it: because it's a challenge every time.
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Will toys amuse, when med'cines cannot cure? When spirits ebb, when life's enchanting scenes Their lustre lose, and lessen in our sight, As lands and cities, with their glittering spires, To the poor shatter'd bark by sudden storm Thrown off to sea, and soon to perish there? Will toys amuse? No: thrones will then be toys, And earth and skies seem dust upon the scale.
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At the end of the day, you have a job to do, and if you don't do your job, you're going to get fired. You just have to kind of put your head down and do it.
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Because I've had time off, I've learned to appreciate tennis more - to put something back into it.
