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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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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It is too often not realized that culture itself is an adaptive tool, one of whose main functions is to make the physiological emergencies come less and less often.
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Political movements and mega sporting events have always gone hand in hand. In 1980, there were Cold War boycotts in Moscow and again in 1984 during Los Angeles Games.
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I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.
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How do you visualize something you've never seen and just imagined, through someone you love very much?
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One cabbie chastened me by saying that the fashion industry was doing harm to young people, who are trying to live up to an unrealistic ideal. It prompted me to make body image and diversity key issues on 'The Business of Fashion.'
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Trump can embrace dictators and gulags, but we the people stand for human rights, for dignity, for keeping families together.
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Trees always remind me of Aboriginal people.
