Evonne Goolagong Cawley Quotes
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In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.
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I think millennials are a generation that's a little bit behind, maybe four or five years behind the previous generation, as far as when they buy a house.
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I think it was a good challenge for me to get my reactions across without being able to speak.
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I think that a lot of guys reach for electronics first, but the truth is that you can never keep up with electronics. You buy a flat-screen TV, and then six months later, there's one that has 3D and Blu-ray and all this business, and that is just going to keep continuing.
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If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
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I think that everyone should be able to dribble. Everyone should be able to pass. Otherwise, why are you out there?
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But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it's important that part of the kids' education is knowing about the Bible.
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I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.
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My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the company that he would carry to work. It's a big iron pipe with a hunk of lead on the head. I think about how far we've come as companies from those days, where workers had to protect themselves from the company.
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My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula.
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Music is really nothing if you think about it - it only becomes something when somebody listens to it. And then it becomes uncontrollable.
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What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
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Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
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I think a lot of people think I'm doing kind of a character onstage, but what you're really getting is just me.
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I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward.
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I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.
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Of course it would depend on the project, but I don't think I could ever separate myself from my aesthetic.
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I think music docs could turn off some people.
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We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway.
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I think Joe Jackson is a great American figure. In my opinion, he became a scapegoat.
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I have a tough time with stand-up because I am an improviser. I can riff; I can do crowd work, so I don't prepare.
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Orwell wasn't right about where society was in 1984. We haven't turned into that sort of surveillance society. But that may be, at least in small part, because of his book. The notion that ubiquitous surveillance and state manipulation of the media is evil is deeply engrained in us.
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I have seen humility in many of the finest leaders I have met the world over. And indeed, it is embodied in the warm, engaging and quintessentially successful spirit of Sir Richard Branson.
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I never think I'm going to lose.