Evonne Goolagong Cawley Quotes
In team tennis, when you're downed, you play harder because there are other people depending upon you.
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When people who love the ocean come together, they can achieve extraordinary things.
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Let me clarify it through the national news agency that I am not joining Aam Aadmi Party. There has been reports that I will be officially joining AAP, but I can assure you that nothing of that sort is happening.
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I was raised by an actress, and I watched all those women turn 60 and ask, Shouldn't get face work? My mother and Anne Bancroft said, We're not going to fall into that.
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But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
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Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?
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I think being called a cat lady is a compliment. It means you have adopted a tiny little maniac into your life.
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I am a huge, huge fan of the plain white tee. A good-fitting, vintage plain white t-shirt, like the 'boyfriend shirt', is the sexiest thing a girl can wear. It goes with anything, fancy or casual.
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Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.
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You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.
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The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.
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For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.
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I think that there's a clinical mental illness called depression, but I believe that post-industrial America has been narcotized by progress. There's a cultural malaise - mental illness or no - that everybody suffers from at some point in their life.
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History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy.
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I gave up the notion of writing the life of Joan of Arc, as I found that there was absolutely no new material to be gleaned on her history - in fact, she had been thrashed out.
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It's a success story here in Michigan. We have hiring going on. We have new industries going on.
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But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for.
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Being Latina, I'm super close with my family. I love them, and I love spending time with them. I love being at my grandma's house and eating her food.
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We had so many of our fans tell us how worthless they felt before they found out about us and watched our interviews and listened to our music.
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There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.
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I am part of a team organising an Emma Hamilton exhibition for the National Maritime Museum for 2016, and the amount of planning is a revelation - borrowing from museums and collections all over the world.
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When Obama was inaugurated, he and his team had an insight - though whether the insight was conscious or not I don't know. But it was this: The TARP $700 billion price tag was a new kind of model.
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Forgiveness is not so much for the perpetrator, but for the victim.
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I can't inhabit my characters until I know what kind of work they do. This requires research because my jobs for the last decade have been author and professor, and I'd like to spare the world more author or professor novels.
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In team tennis, when you're downed, you play harder because there are other people depending upon you.
