Evonne Goolagong Cawley Quotes
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Americans think Soviets are so grim. I want them to see that they can smile.
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I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.
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Sri Lanka is an island off the coast of India. There's two ethnicities there; one the Sinhalese, which is the majority and the government, and the minority, who are the Tamils. That's where I'm from. And my lifetime sort of began there; I spent 10 years, and I was there during when the war started and fled as a refugee to England.
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We need to address our Nation's mounting garbage problem by generating less garbage, particularly paper waste.
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I like the fact that glass ceilings are breaking all over.
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Well, obviously I was excited by the idea that Woody Allen was going to direct it. But at the same time, the script itself and the character was really interesting.
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I think that there are always goals for me to try to achieve, and I'm going to work toward those goals.
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'Matilda' was my favorite movie to film and my favorite to watch, as well.
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I never wanted for anything. We went to Ireland for holidays every year. I was 14 when we first went to Italy. My mum was determined I was going to go to a good school. My mum was an absolute grafter. A real grafter. I got my work ethic from her.
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The documentary 'Certifiably Jonathan' has engrossing moments in it. How can it not? It's got a great subject - the extraordinarily voluble comedian Jonathan Winters, whose constant rush of words can be like a blizzard: beautiful, maddening, exhausting, and finally beautiful again. But it's not a great film.
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The fact that terrorists have yet again targeted not U.S. or UK troops but an international organization... shows the depth of depravity to which they stoop.
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What a child can do today with assistance, she will be able to do by herself tomorrow.
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You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.
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The positions are probably at this point so enormous. Most people are up to their limit.
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I'm Greek. My body produces feta cheese.
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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.
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Right after undergrad, I started doing low-level work on health issues in sub-Saharan Africa, and what struck me was the disconnect between how people in New York would speak about some of the issues people were facing. At the time, 2006-ish, there were a number of big media campaigns to raise awareness about HIV in sub-Saharan Africa.
