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 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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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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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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The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.
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What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.
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I know the hardships that my compatriots working abroad are facing.
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Our stories are different; our pain is the same.
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My brother Steve, who was a few years older than me, had 'Bad' on tape, and I remember listening to 'Smooth Criminal' and just thinking it was the coolest thing ever. I must have been five or six at the time, and I remember walking around school by myself thinking I was Michael Jackson. I wasn't dancing, exactly - more like walking musically.
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If you have 130 people on set, all with different opinions, sometimes it's going to kick off. There might be some people who say I'm a big problem to work with - that you couldn't tell me anything - but hopefully, they don't.
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Trees always remind me of Aboriginal people.
