Evonne Goolagong Cawley Quotes
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I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
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I do not have any pets. We travel too much.
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Music is my balance... center of my life.
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I love the produce section at the grocery store.
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We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.
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I never had to look for confidence because I just wore what I wanted to wear. I would never wear anything to offend my husband or my mother, but outside of that, I always figured, I hope I'm not a rebel, and I hope everybody liked it. And if they didn't like it, it really was not going to disturb me because it was their problem, not mine.
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Think of social media as the Internet. I can't think of anyone betting against the Internet in 2012.
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I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.
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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
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If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?
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Vampires are total sexual metaphors; there's just no way around that.
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I work hard, and managing an inventory-based business can be extremely stressful. The upside is that, as long as I get my job done, I can take time off pretty much any time I want.
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I had an obsession with underarm shields - pointy ones, round ones, full ones, half ones.
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I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.
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Sometimes when I pick up a book off the shelf, when I'm buying a new book to read, I'll look at all of them and they all have the exact same words inside, but I'll think that one is meant to go home with me. I'll never pick the first thing off the shelf, I'll always go one behind.
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I asked Dalai Lama the most important question that I think you could ask - if he had ever seen Caddyshack.
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At a earlier age, I was kind of into a pretty large scope or range of music from Hieroglyphics and the Hobo Junction guys and all that to like a lot of stuff that was in New York like Diamond D, Nas, Brand Nubian, of course Biggie, OC, Organized Confusion, Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Digable Planets, who I just saw recently, and they killed it.
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Most of the time I was in the Northeast, I lived in the country, and I think that helped me to discover my material for writing.
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I wrote a query letter to an editor - a friend of a friend. The editor called me an idiot, told me never to contact an editor directly, and then recommended three literary agents he had worked with before. Laurie Fox was one of them, and I've never looked back.
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I like music and dancing.
