Evonne Goolagong Cawley Quotes
People told me I made the game look easy and I didn't always look like I was trying my best, but I always was.
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I could see myself in some sort of pioneer bonnet, it's my childhood fantasy, but I think I look too Jewish for the prairie.
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If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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I do not consider myself beautiful.
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I'm normal. I just had a different occupation for a while, and when you're in a different occupation, you have to carry yourself a different way. Most of my art is me bringing you stories from that era of my life. My life now is kind of boring.
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I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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I would really love to collaborate with Gwen Stefani and M.I.A.; artists that kind of make sense with me vocally. And in terms of style, I'm a very visual artist. I really love Pharell. I love people that really care about drums, and I like beat-heavy.
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I had great mentors in my parents who always sought to understand the world around them. And they would push me to really think things through.
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I'd only been in the business three or four years, but I told myself that someday I'd like to be Mort Janklow.
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I went through my whole life wanting to feel I belonged. I was very, very lonely, so I would marry people that I wasn't really in love with, and who weren't right for me, because I hoped they would be.
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The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.
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People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.
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God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.
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I really have this sense that time is passing, and it's important to do what you have wanted to do.
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I would say that a good shoe is exactly like a good wine. These shoes are going to stay and last for a long time.
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The background - your own history - is way more important than what you can achieve as a professional.
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I feel that I am more aware of my artistry.
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The mayor of New York is the chief executive of the city. It is a complex organization, and it requires the requisite skills to understand how to be the leader of the people and manage the government of N.Y.
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I am an enthusiastic European, and my first-hand experience of war and hatred has strengthened that conviction. I have seen how misguided unilateral nationalistic identities have brought destruction and death. I am, however, a world citizen, too.
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Whether there's 100 people or 100,000, we bring our 'A' game every single time. We're full-speed on stage. We kick the audience's butt.
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Pity the poor senator or representative trying to stay alive in the political jungle. At every turn, there's a danger: a constituent who actually wants something done. Or worse, a campaign donor who might be offended by that something.
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People told me I made the game look easy and I didn't always look like I was trying my best, but I always was.
