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.

  

  Quintilian
  • Perfection
  • Which
  • Soon

• Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Man
  • Best

• I am a Zionist.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Zionist

• 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.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • People
  • Life
  • Husband

• 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.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • College
  • Football
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• The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.

  

  C. P. Scott
  • Happy
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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.

  

  Hans Blix
  • People
  • Me
  • Military

• You can cage the singer but not the song.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • Song
  • You
  • Singer

• You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Believe
  • Truth

• 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.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Peace
  • Loved
  • Beer

• I love to play with the notion of who the protagonist is - who is the audience supposed to root for? I did it in 'Sicario' and feel it was the strength of the script - guiding the audience's allegiance toward the villain because they think he's the hero, until it's revealed that he's the villain.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Love
  • Hero
  • Strength

• The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.

  

  Orson Welles
  • You
  • Stage
  • Two

• Life is full of regrets, but it doesn't pay to look back.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Life
  • Look
  • Regrets

• 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.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Character
  • Happy
  • Fun

• I love when I go to conventions, and often it'll be the younger kids who will refer to us by our character names - how can you not find that absolutely charming? I remember when I used to go to conventions when I was a kid when I would stand in long lines to get people's autograph.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • People
  • Kids
  • Remember

• My feet are like something from another age - prehistoric and troll-like. I keep expecting them to talk, they have that much character.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Character
  • Age
  • Feet

• Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Hope
  • Success
  • Survival

• 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.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • People
  • Drug

• The big issue with rock stars becoming actors is that sometimes it's not believable, and vice versa with actors becoming rock stars. Sometimes just doesn't fit.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Rock
  • Sometimes
  • Stars

• Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most. His very 'uniqueness,' 'separateness' and 'differentiation' make him an alien, not only in his native place, but even in his own home. Often more so than the foreign born who generally falls in with the established.

  

  Emma Goldman
  • Home
  • Alien

• When meditating, do not expect something to happen. Otherwise, you are meditating on your expectation, and you are not doing the Meditation itself.

  

  Choa Kok Sui
  • Happens
  • Meditation
  • Expectations

• When I take on a design project, I have to jet from the bookstore to the hardware shop to the lamp store and back again just to collect a small portion of the many items I need to fill a home. But, when you hit the flea market, they're all right there. From booth to booth, you have the bases covered.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Home
  • Small
  • Design

• I used to suffer from stage fright, which at times was an ordeal. I won't perform live again. I'm going to do some TV shows and videos but nothing else... I don't like to travel too much or do concerts. I'm more of a studio and home girl.

  

  Agnetha Faltskog
  • Live
  • Home
  • Girl

• 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.

  

  Evonne Goolagong Cawley
  • Home
  • Christmas
  • I Remember