Evonne Goolagong Cawley Quotes
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I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
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I think that Indy is special to me. The greater the distance between the last time I drove an Indy car and the next time, I wouldn't like that to be too big.
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When I first started out in cycling, if there were two girls there, that was successful; but now, if there are 20 girls there, it's just unbelievable. The growth of the sport is just incredible.
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I would love to direct - or try my hand at it, anyway.
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I think a lot of people are curious about what makes people do what they do, and I guess my curiosity isn't hidden in any way.
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I'm just a purist. What is important in my life is that I can do something that can influence many people and influence China's development. When I am myself, I am relaxed and happy and have a good result.
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There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em.
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I don't think I'm ugly, but I never thought I was that special.
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The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.
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I think William Trevor is as good as it gets. Whenever I want a book to do exactly what it says it will, I read him.
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'Let us leave tomorrow’s trouble for the One who bore our troubles on the cross.'
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Mac continued to write scathing commentary on assorted hypocrisies in high places and low, without which hypocrisies, he cheerfully conceded, civilized life would be impossible.
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Freedom.
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I mistrust illuminations: what we take for a discovery is very often only a familiar thought that we have not recognized.
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Sushi is one of my favorite foods.
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Don't stare into a mirror when you are trying to solve a problem.
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You'll be using digital currency. I think really what will happen is you'll use a combination of bitcoin, ether, your devices, the 'Internet of Things.' We've got billions of devices coming online.
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Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.
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The interiorization of the technology of the phonetic alphabet translates man from the magical world of the ear to the neutral visual world. (p. 21)
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I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.
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As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.
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If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old - somebody who takes good care of things and of people.
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Water, whether still or in motion, has so great an attraction for the lover of nature, that the most beautiful landscape seems scarcely complete without it. There are no effects so fascinating as those produced by the reflexions in nature's living mirror, with their delicacy of form, ever fleeting and changing, and their subtle combinations of colour.
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Usually I have to leave parties early - just when the action is beginning.
