Evonne Goolagong Cawley Quotes
Every time there was a shiny car, my mum must have worried it was the welfare people coming for her kids. We had no idea.
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A novel is not a rant.
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I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.
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The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.
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If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
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If the lyrics are something new, then maybe I want to give it a more traditional form, or the other way around, but not have all one or the other.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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I did tennis for a while, and I was actually on the volleyball team for a minute.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it's the greatest game there is!
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My work is all about adventure and teamwork in some of the most inhospitable jungles, mountains and deserts on the planet. If you aren't able to look after yourself and each other, then people die.
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There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.
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Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.
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Here in America, just as we see such incredible progress happening in one state, we see another state passing absolutely disgusting and oppressive laws against the rights of all sorts of people - transgender people, gay people, women.
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I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.
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There's just something about that cold rush that I know I hate and a lot of other swimmers hate.
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There's a point of no return when you're cooking tomatoes. A little too much heat, a little too long in the pot, and you lose that sense of fresh ripeness that makes tomatoes so great.
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One thing Mom taught me, "You're going to be dead a long time, so do it now!"
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As kids do, they're smart, and even if parents try to keep things away from them, conflict and issues and whatnot, kids pick up on what's happening.
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All the kids from my nursery school are still in touch.
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I love kids that come to shows, little kids coming up to you with braces; like, some kid came up to me in a parking lot outside a show in Santa Cruz - he was about 14 or 15 - and he said, 'Y'know, I love 'The Basketball Diaries,' but I hope your next book of poetry isn't gonna be as academic as 'Living at the Movies' was.'
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Every time there was a shiny car, my mum must have worried it was the welfare people coming for her kids. We had no idea.
