Evonne Goolagong Cawley Quotes
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When I was a kid, I didn't know how I got into acting.
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The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.
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Female influence came from my grandmother and my aunt. They would sing Corsican love songs while cleaning the house and dress all in black and say melodramatic things like: 'I want to die.'
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Eradicate poverty. This is all that matters in my country. When I am out training I think about this a lot; when I am running it is going over in my mind. As a country we cannot move forward until we eradicate poverty.
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When I see other people out there, involved, and really giving their time and effort for the kids, then I don't mind giving my time and effort for the kids as well.
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I'm trying to shut up and let my angels speak to me and tell me what I'm supposed to do.
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I've been called everything. Gangsta rap. I've been called conscious rap. You know, everything. Whoever feels like calling it whatever they want to call it, that's on them.
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It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
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I loved acting as a kid because I was kind of shy, so it brought me out of myself.
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Education is the key to the future.
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I was brought up by parents who embraced the 1960s and taught me that being faithful isn't the be-all and end-all.
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Don't let people see when you're mad - just smile and laugh.
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I'm just excited to see myself on billboards. I'm getting ready to be a star.
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Despite the volume of 'junk' mail that students receive each year, companies that have an interest in selling their product to students say direct mailing is a key to their success.
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I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act.
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Eventually stardom is going to go away from me. It goes away from everybody and all you have in the end is to be able to look back and like the choices you made.
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I grew up in a neighbourhood where there was a lot of fighting. It's what boys did during school, during recess, after school. And I was a fairly large kid. So everyone wanted to see if they could take me on.
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In life sciences, we find a reasonable balance between men and women. In engineering and computer science, we have a major problem. A very small percentage of women will be in computer science.
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Everybody wants to have a partner; everybody would love to have a family, and for trans people, sometimes that can be extraordinarily difficult to do.
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The cynicism that you have is not your real soul.
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Choirs, auditions, talent shows, I was doing it all.
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The Americans are still the leaders in human space flight. I feel we have a danger here of kind of stagnating. We're kind of resting on our laurels and there's a danger going forward if we don't take bold steps to really support human space flight in this country that we could fall behind. After the space shuttle is retired, we're going to have a big gap, five to seven years, at least where we're not going to have the ability to send our own astronauts into space, we'll have to buy rides on the Russian Soyuz, and so that will be a pretty big step down for us.
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I'll get married when I'm sick of tennis.
