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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I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.
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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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I'm a traditionalist with suits. It doesn't need extra pockets, and I don't want headphone jacks in my jacket. I appreciate designers who do different things, but for me, the most basic version of that item is what I want.
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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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The answer to having a better life is not about getting a better life, it's just about changing how we see the one we have right now.
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I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.
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We had collaborated with Allen Ginsberg on one of his last projects just before he died in the spring of '97, a book called Illuminated Poems - it was Allen's poems and songs and I illustrated them. Or, I illuminated them with paintings and drawings that bounced off of them. You want the picture to relate to the text without it slavishly regurgitating it or merely illustrating it, because that's redundant. You want to show another angle of what the text is saying.
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Because I've had time off, I've learned to appreciate tennis more - to put something back into it.
