Evonne Goolagong Cawley Quotes
I used to say during my career that the biggest gift was having my children.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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The only people who never fail are those who never try.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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I am from Karnal, India.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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Even when I turn 60, they'll call me a child actor.
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I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.
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The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being.
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Bin Laden wasn't all that central to the terrorist network any more, but taking him down created a kind of national catharsis. It's been a really, really long time since we had something to celebrate that didn't involve a sports team. I'd rather it had been a non-death-related occasion, but we'll take what we can get.
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There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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When I was asked to come over to the States, I thought to myself, 'What the Americans are very good at doing is creating stories with strong movement and plots that carry the movie as it goes along.'
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Deterrence is still fundamentally about influencing an actor's decisions. It is about a solid policy foundation. It is about credible capabilities. It is about what the U.S. and our allies as a whole can bring to bear in both a military and a nonmilitary sense.
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The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must be attributed in the best cases physiologically to the medium, intellectually to the control.
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I'm a Sagittarius, and one of our major qualities is that we're blindly optimistic.
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I was going to France to do my masters and my Ph.D., but I didn't know how to say, 'bonjour.' You really feel like a baby, starting everything from scratch.
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Those trying to get support for their iPhones don't necessary trust their carriers, so they ask their friends for help.
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
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I've always been able to shoot the ball, so it's just about continuing to work on your shot and shoot the ball. That's the main thing. Got to get those shots up.
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It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.
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I always felt that the music sells by itself. The music has always been the successful aspect on my career, and that means that, to me, I can always still stay very focused on music.
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I'm a sloucher, sort of, when nobody's looking.
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In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare's plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.
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I used to say during my career that the biggest gift was having my children.
