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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In a conquered country benevolence is not humanitarianism. It is a general political axiom that a conqueror must not inspire a good opinion of his benevolence until he has demonstrated that he can be severe with malefactors.
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Today, if we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other-that man, that woman, that child is my brother or my sister. If everyone could see the image of God in his neighbor, do you think we would still need tanks and generals?
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The only things I read are gossip columns. If I read three pages of a book, I'm out like a light. When I pick up the book again, I've forgotten what I've read and have to start over again. By page three, even if I've just awakened from a nine -hour nap, I fall asleep again. So if anyone gives me a book, it had better have lots of pictures.
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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.
