Evonne Goolagong Cawley Quotes
My goal is to share information and to educate. But am I an activist? No, no, no. I don't believe in pushing things on people.
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
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I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.
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I know conventional wisdom has always been to go to Europe, and I did that early on, and I tried it, but I realised pretty quickly if I wasn't playing, nothing else mattered - I wasn't going to be happy.
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One can't do anything alone in Haiti. Sharing and cooperation are so deeply woven into the culture that sometimes it's hard to have a separate thought.
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After watching me in a larger-than-life character in 'Magadheera,' the audiences didn't accept me as a college–going boy in 'Orange.'
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I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
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Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!
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It's been amazing how this crazy career has been created. I feel that it's been given to me. I wouldn't be anywhere without Victoria's Secret.
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You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.
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I'm scared of any fighter I've ever fought because they are some dangerous people to be dealing with. That's also where the anxiety comes from.
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A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
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You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It's your call.
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I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence.
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New York ladies all look immaculate.
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As more and more minority groups fill our nation's classrooms, what can we do to even the separate-but-forever-unequal playing field? Now that's a question many very smart people have spent decades trying to answer.
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My job is to engage, entertain, work out my life, tell a certain truth.
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Football has been my life for as long as I can remember.
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Film work can be tedious and sort of all over the place, especially when you have a family and you're going off and doing things somewhere else.
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When you sign on to be an activist in northwest Montana, people in the grocery store will avoid eye contact, particularly if they're hanging out with outspoken opponents to your views.
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I think a man turns into a writer by editing his own texts.
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Never put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.
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That information was up there at about 5:15 a.m.. We also sent out e-mail news updates to those who have signed up for them.
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A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.
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My goal is to share information and to educate. But am I an activist? No, no, no. I don't believe in pushing things on people.
