Academy Quotes

• I had a standing arrangement with God: I'd agree to believe in him—barely—so long as he let me sleep in on Sundays.

  Richelle Mead

  Believe, Sleep, Sunday

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.34, Penguin

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• What does the Academy Award mean? I don’t think it means much of anything.

  Sally Field

  Mean, Thinking, Awards

  "Biting The Hand That Feeds? 10 Actors Who Dissed The Oscars Before Joaquin Phoenix" by Oliver Lyttelton, www.indiewire.com. October 19, 2012.

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• Dimitri: "Rose, I'm seven years older than you. In ten years, that won't mean so much, but for now, it's huge. I'm an adult. You're a child.” Rose: "You didn't seem to think I was a child when you were all over me.” - Rose Hathaway & Dimitri Belikov (Vampire Academy)

  Richelle Mead

  Children, Mean, Thinking

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• Hollywood -- that's where they give Academy Awards to Charlton Heston for acting.

  Shirley Knight

  Awards, Giving, Acting

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• Science built the Academy, superstition the Inquisition.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Superstitions, Built, Inquisition

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1898). “Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll: Including His Letters on the Chinese God--Is Suicide a Sin?--The Right to One's Life--etc. Etc. Etc”

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• 'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award.

  Bill Murray

  Groundhog Day, Awards, Scripts

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• I'm used to seeing it, but it's weird having an Academy Award. You usually only see one of them on the TV show when they give them out, so it's kind of surreal to have one in your house.

  Steven Wright

  Awards, Tv Shows, Giving

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• It would be the ultimate dream for me to win an Academy Award, be in love and have kids. Then I would say, 'Life is great! I have done everything I wanted.

  Tara Reid

  Dream, Kids, Winning

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm really not good with impulse control.

  Richelle Mead

  Impulse Control, Rose, Vampire

  Richelle Mead (2007). “Vampire Academy”, p.277, Penguin

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• I fought against her, trying to mount some kind of defense, but it was like fighting Dimitri on crack.

  Richelle Mead

  Fighting, Rose, Vampire

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.173, Penguin

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• I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.

  Bela Lugosi

  Art, Years, Degrees

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• If one thing that bothers me about acting, it's that there's no clear-cut number one. The closest you can get is winning an Academy Award, and I'm going to work on that if it takes me the next 50 years. To my peers, it will mean that I'm the best!

  Dana Hill

  Mean, Cutting, Winning

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• Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic environment.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Impact, Environment, Academic

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• I was put under contract. A major studio. I got nominated for an Academy Award. Isn't that ridiculous? I mean, at the age of 18!

  Angela Lansbury

  Mean, Awards, Age

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• Ninety percent of the members of the Academy of German Law were not members of the Party.

  Hans Frank

  Party, Law, Ninety

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• There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.

  Charles Babbage

  Ambition, Numbers, Lists

  Charles Babbage (1830). “Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes”, p.29

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• Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor.

  Ray Charles

  Years, Honor, Music Is My Life

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• The only thing better than imagining Dimitri carrying me in his arms was imagining him shirtless while carrying me in his arms.

  Richelle Mead

  Vampire, Arms, Dimitri

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.135, Penguin

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• I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike

  Harold Bloom

  World, Knaves, Charlatans

  "Criticism in Society". Interview with Imre Salusinski, 1987.

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• That best academy, a mother's knee.

  James Russell Lowell

  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

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• In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.

  Edmund Burke

  Prejudice, Grove, Ends

  'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 115.

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• I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two - are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats.

  Harold Bloom

  Thinking, Two, Voice

  Interview with Imre Salusinski in "Criticism in Society", 1987.

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• Oh, so that's why you're up here. For a pity party." "This isn't a joke. I'm serious." I could tell Lissa was getting angry. It was trumping her earlier distress. He shrugged and leaned casually against the sloping wall. "So am I. I love pity parties. I wish I'd brought the hats. What do you want to mope about first? How it's going to take you a whole day to be popular and loved again? How you'll have to wait a couple weeks before Hollister can ship out some new clothes? If you spring for rush shipping, it might not be so long.

  Richelle Mead

  Wall, Couple, Spring

  Richelle Mead (2016). “Vampire Academy 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.32, Penguin

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• Hollywood's racist. Hollywood is sorority racist. It's like - we like you, Rhonda, but you're not a Kappa.

  Chris Rock

  Awards, Rocks, Hollywood

  "For Better Or Worse, Chris Rock Made The Oscars As Black As He Possibly Could". "All Things Considered" with Eric Deggans, www.npr.org. February 29, 2016.

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• This moment is so much bigger than me. It's for every nameless, faceless woman of colour that now has a chance because this door tonight has been opened.

  Halle Berry

  Doors, Tonight, Oscars

  Halle Berry's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 24, 2002.

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