Evonne Goolagong Cawley Quotes
When I walk out on to the court and everyone is staring, sometimes I wonder how my legs will carry me out there. That's forgotten as soon as I start playing.
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If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
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My style is an extension of acting and an outcome of some serious lessons I picked up learning when I did theatre in my early days.
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I was very precocious when I was young. I went to college at 16, and I graduated at 20. I wanted to be a writer, but I was more interested in experience than in applying myself intellectually.
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The whole freedom-of-speech thing is great. But I don't think that our Founding Fathers predicted social media when they created all of these amendments and stuff.
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I used to sneak into my mother's closet and try to wear her lingerie to school.
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I am not someone who sacrifice all for the cinema, my life will be always more important.
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I'll eat anything. I love food in general. I love traditional Mexican, carne asada. Just meat, beans, rice, and some good salsa.
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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.
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You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.
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Basically, I didn't know anything about fashion. I was very nerdy; I went to Bryn Mawr and never even noticed models when I was 21.
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Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense.
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Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.
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If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe, he must contemplate the human intellect not only on its heights of genius but in its abysses of ineptitude.
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It took me whole decades to appreciate the depth and true value of yoga. Sacred texts supported my discoveries, but it was not they that signposted the way. What I learned through yoga, I found out through yoga.
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A man cannot live more than 24 hours unless he has at least three cubic meters of air that is being constantly replaced.
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I'm not even allowed to take a notebook and a pen with me into the court.
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Let people return to making knots on ropes, instead of writing.
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Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.
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Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
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When I walk out on to the court and everyone is staring, sometimes I wonder how my legs will carry me out there. That's forgotten as soon as I start playing.
