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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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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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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I don't think my father was my mentor.
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I pushed against doing a podcast for so long. I'm a very late comer to the podcast game. But you're responsibility as a comedian is to get your viewpoints out into the world, and we have a lot more avenues to do that. So it's a lot more opportunity, but really have to work all the time.
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Accents are very tangible, blessedly, and if you have to do one, it's a way of getting into character. I can read it through a few times and pretend I know what I'm doing!
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There was a lot of feeling that with an African-American president, life on the South Side of Chicago would be radically different.
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The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
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I'm mixing country with kind of a modern twist to it.
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When it comes to politics, we have an internal glass ceiling. We stand as good a chance as a man to win a political race, but women don't want to run at the same rate as men do. People point to the work-family balance issue, but I think it's much more than that. Many women don't have children, or have children who are no longer at home. There are some deeper psychological and emotional issues in play, like the fact that many of us feel like the embarrassment, humiliation and personal demonization in politics are simply more than our hearts can take. What stops us is fear.
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People make mistakes. They say stupid things.
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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.
