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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When Morrissey and I started The Smiths, we thought pop music was the most important thing in the world. It was almost a spiritual thing for us, and because of that, we knew what it meant to be a fan.
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I was always more interested in the ultimate live performance rather than the recording for its own sake. And, for the audience too, that thrill of - just being there.
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Let me add, that only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.
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Often we see a couple who has separated or divorced and look with sadness at the ‘failure’ of their relationship. But if both people learned what they were meant to learn, then that relationship was a success.
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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money.
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Trees always remind me of Aboriginal people.
