Evonne Goolagong Cawley Quotes
I remember I hadn't bought anything for my Mum for Christmas and I actually won an iron, so I was excited that I could take that home for her.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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I am a Zionist.
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My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So many people in my life make basement recordings, so I feel very lucky, I'm surrounded by very creative people.
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I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.
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What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.
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I'd loved to wear jeans and t-shirts, but everybody was in the peace movement back then. And that was my ploy. I had to be careful not to say things like 'I like meat.' Actually I just wanted to drink beer and to screw.
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The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.
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Life is full of regrets, but it doesn't pay to look back.
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I've had experiences where I wasn't allowed to change words around at all because you have to say everything, exactly as written on the page. That's not fun for me. For me, part of being an actor is being able to contribute to a character's rhythms. If there's room to explore, you find a happy medium.
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My feet are like something from another age - prehistoric and troll-like. I keep expecting them to talk, they have that much character.
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Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.
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If people take any notice of what we say, we say we've been through the drug scene, man, and there's nothing like being straight.
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Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble.
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We are not occupying Afghanistan, we are there as guests of a government, at their request.
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When Joy Division started, I was scared to death of having to get a normal day job.
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For me, it's a great joy to be together with priests: in the end, the bishop of Rome is the bishop and brother of all priests. His mandate is to confirm the brothers in the faith.
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I think I'm going to be making country records for as long as I can see into the future. It's much more down-home and real.
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I always choose songs that I have an emotional connection to, and I often feel myself getting very emotional when I sing.
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It's hard to get an inner dialogue in a film. It's not cinematic. But in a musical, the character can just turn to the audience and sing.
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The nice thing about the theatre is you can always change it. With a movie, once it's there, you're stuck with it.
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That is America. That is America. Those bonds of affection; that common creed. We don't fear the future; we shape it. We embrace it, as one people, stronger together than we are on our own.
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The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
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I remember I hadn't bought anything for my Mum for Christmas and I actually won an iron, so I was excited that I could take that home for her.
