Evonne Goolagong Cawley Quotes
Every time I hit the ball I would pretend I was on that magical court at Wimbledon. And then every time I went to sleep at night I would dream about playing at Wimbledon one day.
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Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.
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Why not premiere movies on Netflix the same day they're opening in theaters? Listen to the consumer; give the consumer what they want.
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If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.
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When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.
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Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply.
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We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood.
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There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
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I am not as simple as I look.
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To resolve problems through negotiation is a very childish approach.
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I've had good times and bad times. That's me. That's how I am.
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Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.
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The attempts to command the climate and decide about the temperature on our planet are wrong and arrogant. I wrote a book about it which was published in English under the title 'Blue Planet in Green Shackles.'
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The word 'cancer' carries with it enormous fear, fear for the future, fear for family.
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I don't think music affects what words I choose to type in what order, within what punctuation, at this point, because I'm rereading and editing each sentence, at this point, in my published books, probably 100-150 times each, on average, and listening to probably 20-60 different songs in that time.
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Iraq has, in effect, one export of any consequence. That's oil.
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No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.
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Ch. 2 Relativity
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Well, there's nothing better than putting your feet up on a Sunday afternoon and grabbing a good book.
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When you have a lot of people telling you what you are and perceiving you in a certain way, it's difficult to find your own identity.
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Strong people don't need strong leaders.
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I suppose what happened is that I spent my whole life wanting to be cool but eventually came to recognise the mechanism of how coolness works. So it's not really that I don't want to be cool anymore - it's more like I've come to realise that coolness doesn't exist the way I once assumed.
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It's funny how seeing a love story never gets boring, because it's the dream, isn't it? It's the dream to have a true connection with another human being.
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I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves.
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Every time I hit the ball I would pretend I was on that magical court at Wimbledon. And then every time I went to sleep at night I would dream about playing at Wimbledon one day.
