Academy Quotes - Page 8

• It's interesting, winning an Academy Award as a young man... life-changing, but I'm just me within that. It's been very helpful for my career, but I'm trying to stay on the path I was on before.

  Adrien Brody

  Life Changing, Winning, Men

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

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• When I got into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, a doctor told me to give up the course as I'd be totally deaf within a couple of years. But I refused to give in.

  Stephanie Beacham

  Art, Giving Up, Couple

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• Y Tu Mama Tambien' is one of the first unrated movies to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. But many video stores won't take a movie that's not rated, so I had to make the movie an R.

  Alfonso Cuaron

  Awards, Video, Firsts

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• In the evening, since I have a lot of friends in theater, we might take in a Deaf West production in North Hollywood, or, since I'm a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, they have screenings that are really great.

  Tim DeKay

  Art, Hollywood, Lots Of Friends

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• For the last years now I've had my own academy where I train Brazilian Jujitsu and Tae boxing, Muay Thai everyday.

  Sean Patrick Flanery

  Years, Boxing, Everyday

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When the Academy called, I panicked. I thought they might want their Oscars back and the pawn shop has been out of business for a while.

  Woody Allen

  Business, Want, Oscars

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• I was suppose to be a Jesuit priest or a naval academy graduate.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Religious, Religion, Graduates

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• I went to a regular school, not one of those fame academy things.

  Alyson Hannigan

  School, Fame

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• In the '70s and '80s there was an attempt in K-12 to teach science through art or art through science. The challenge today is how do you build the ethos of art and design into the academy of science.

  John Maeda

  Art, Ethos, Design

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• I enjoyed Ready For This, which was created by the people behind Dance Academy and Redfern Now, and really it's what you'd get if you crossed Redfern Now with Dance Academy

  Justine Larbalestier

  People, Ready, Behinds

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Don't be pretentious is my first advice to young writers. This is the big problem - just because you're getting an MFA doesn't mean you have to write for the Academy. Be true to your personality. Don't temper your personality down with words. Don't build defensive fortresses around yourself with words - words are your friends.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Mean, Writing, Personality

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• We need to get rid of the growing army of temporary workers now filling the ranks of academy. This is scandalous; it weakens both the power of the faculty and exploits these workers.

  Henry Giroux

  Army, Needs, Growing

  "Higher Education Under Attack". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• We need to take on the new media, and in terms of power and public pedagogy, we need to organize a whole range of people outside of the academy.

  Henry Giroux

  Media, People, Needs

  "Higher Education Under Attack". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• I studied at the Academy during the years of economic sanctions. Life was almost dead because the sanctions imposed on Iraq by the civilized world were so strict.

  Hassan Blasim

  Years, Economic Sanctions, Iraq

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm not Pollyanna - I know that my personality and my opinions and how I approach the teaching of writing maybe isn't exactly how it's done traditionally in the academy...wherever that academy is...but, you know, the academy is broken as it relates to many creative writing programs.

  Tod Goldberg

  Teaching, Writing, Broken

  Source: therumpus.net

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• They [academy writing programs] have no concept that the world has changed, that publishing has changed, that filmmaking has changed, and if you're not constantly looking at your education model and adjusting for the change, you'll find yourself teaching antiquity. Like all of these programs that won't accept students who are writing genre fiction - what an institutional ego!

  Tod Goldberg

  Teaching, Writing, Ego

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.

  Rachael Taylor

  Winning, Awards, Looks

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• There are things that are happening way earlier than that when it comes to someone deciding whether they're going to spend x amount of millions of dollars on a movie. I want $100 million success. The moviegoer is the person I'm more interested in than the Academy.

  Don Cheadle

  Dollars, Want, Oscars

  "Don Cheadle’s Idea for Fixing the Oscars". Interview with Katey Rich, www.vanityfair.com. January 23, 2016.

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• You don't expect a 94-year-old white guy to pick "Dope," which was an awesome movie not even close to being considered by the Academy. And that's what it's all about, like, promoting people who might not otherwise get promoted and celebrating people who might not get celebrated.

  Russell Simmons

  Dope, Years, White

  "Russell Simmons Has Your Oscars Alternative". "All Things Considered" with Eric Westervelt, www.npr.org. February 28, 2016.

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• Nuclear industry proponents often assert that low doses of radiation (eg below 100mSV) produce no ill effects and are therefore safe. But , as the US National Academy of Sciences BEIR VII report has concluded, no dose of radiation is safe, however small, including background radiation; exposure is cumulative and adds to an individual's risk of developing cancer.

  Helen Caldicott

  Cancer, Risk, Radiation

  "How nuclear apologists mislead the world over radiation" by Helen Caldicott, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2011.

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• I didn't practise it loads when I was at the academy in Spain, but when I got on the ATP Tour it's something I dedicated a lot of time to.

  Andy Murray

  Spain, Dedicated, Practise

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• ''Women of the Gallagher Academy, who comes here?" she asked. Just then, every girl at every table (even the newbies) stood and said in unison, "We are the sisters of Gillian." "Why do you come?" my mother asked. "To learn her skills. Honor her sword. And keep her secrets." "To what end do you work?" "To the cause of justice and light." "How long will you strive?" "For all the days of our lives," we finished and I felt a little like a character in one of my grandma's soap operas.

  Ally Carter

  Girl, Mother, Grandma

  "Gallagher Girls: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have To Kill You". Book by Ally Carter, April 1, 2006.

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• Success has many ways of coming to you. Sometimes it comes right away, and then the film's instantly forgotten. Sometimes you can't remember what won the Academy Award for best picture, and then you can remember the one that didn't. And then sometimes in the afterlife, films that were not successful at all become these giant successes.

  Sherry Lansing

  Successful, Afterlife, Awards

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.

  Baruch Spinoza

  School, Men, Historical

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• Men, you are about to embark on a great crusade to stamp out runaway decency in the west. Now you men will only be risking your lives, whilst I will be risking an almost certain Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

  Harvey Korman

  Men, Awards, Actors

  "Fictional character: Hedley Lamarr". "Blazing Saddles", www.imdb.com. 1974.

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