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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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I like someone who's not afraid to be a kid!
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I do not have any pets. We travel too much.
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My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on.
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Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.
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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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The one thing I've always done, because I like the sound of my guitar from where I sit - meaning not in front of it - so what I do is, I put microphones around my ears. I have them around my head, too. I don't know if it's a superstitious thing, but it's actually how I recorded my first album.
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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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One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
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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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I got an amazing 10-CD set, it's the music that Alan Lomax recorded in Haiti in 1936. And what's incredible is how fantastic the drummers are and how off-the-grid they are. The liveliness is astonishing; they're just totally alive, these recordings. It's very interesting, to me, to be reminded of that, that there was a time when things were not that tight.
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Music is a healing tool.
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Again, a franchise to me doesn't have to be a billion dollar title.
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I like music and dancing.
