Evonne Goolagong Cawley Quotes
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
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I never been a hater of these other cats, who never really had nothing, being successful. That's not my problem.
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I always drive like a madman.
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I have had wrinkles on my forehead and my smile line since I was a kid. I see them in my own kids. I know what they're going to look like. So it's kind of like that's my personality. I feel the older you get, too, the more confident you become just in your own skin.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
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When I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn't necessarily do anything, but I'd pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.
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My best friend is my husband.
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
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Too often we're happy to receive thanks from the nonprofits we fund, accepting gratitude instead of feedback or performance measurements.
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I want a baby from an Italian - possibly Sicilian - donor.
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I would have been miserable in college. I always hated school.
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Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
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Doing something that is productive is a great way to alleviate emotional stress. Get your mind doing something that is productive.
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I was a Scout years ago, before the movement started, when my father took me fishing, camping and hunting. Then I was sorry that more girls could not have what I had. When I learned of the movement, I thought, here is what I always wanted other girls to have.
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The sage does not attempt anything very big, and thus achieves greatness.
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How majestic is naturalness. I have never met a man whom I really considered a great man who was not always natural and simple. Affectation is inevitably the mark of one not sure of himself.
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I want to keep talking about my people and my country in my own language.
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That's absolutely one of my main goals, to have a number one on Billboard. That's a big thing for me. That means people are buying and listening to your music.
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Trees always remind me of Aboriginal people.
