Awards Quotes - Page 19

• When you go to awards shows these days, you can walk through a room and they give you everything for free: sunglasses, guitars, stuff for the wife.

  Jordan Knight

  Guitar, Giving, Wife

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• Actors like to play bad guys because they're more fun. They also win more awards.

  Dean Norris

  Fun, Winning, Play

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

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• Among all the 'awards' that I have hitherto collected, I consider the title of 'patita' or 'fallen woman' to be the highest. This is an achievement of my long-struggling life as a writer and as a woman.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Struggle, Long, Achievement

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• Of course awards matter.

  Frank Ocean

  Matter, Courses

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've seen enough successful writers who no longer seem to care when they are recognized with an award, and I think that's just tragic.

  Louise Penny

  Successful, Thinking, Care

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• No matter how many awards you've won or how many sales you've got, come the next book it's still a blank sheet of paper and you're still panicking like hell that you've got nothing new to say.

  Ian Rankin

  Book, Matter, Next

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• I feel like if I won an award and I was giving my speech and the music started, that's all I'd remember, the humiliation I felt when the music started. It would mar the entire experience for me.

  Seth Rogen

  Giving, Mars, Speech

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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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• It's nice to get your glad rags on for awards like the Baftas, but it doesn't happen all the time.

  Dan Stevens

  Nice, Rags, Glad

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

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• I went to a couple Academy Awards parties and I was definitely like, 'Whoa, no one will talk to me.'

  Matt Stone

  Couple, Party, Talk To Me

  "Interview: Trey Parker and Matt Stone". Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. May 12, 2005.

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• For me, honestly, it's not about individual accomplishments, individual award. It's about what I've got to do and how I can contribute to the team.

  Sheryl Swoopes

  Team, Accomplishment, Individual

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• Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things that it seems petty to look back and say, 'Oh, I should have gotten that prize.' I've been so blessed, it's hard to look back and think anything but that, so I have no disappointments.

  Aaron Tveit

  Should Have, Looks, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Every award for me is important because it means a slap against militarism and fascism in Indonesia.

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer

  Mean, Important, Indonesia

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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, Looks, Movie Star

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• I can see my ghost trying to get that Academy Award, forever stuck in a casting office. Can you imagine? I've spent enough time in audition rooms. I don't want to be doing that in my afterlife.

  Rachael Taylor

  Afterlife, Office, Forever

  "Talking About Ghosts with Rachael Taylor". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.esquire.com. September 28, 2012.

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• Girls' is a huge show, as far as buzz, and magazine covers, and getting a ton of copy, and awards. And yet I don't think the viewership is huge.

  Mike White

  Girl, Thinking, Magazines

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• No person writes to win awards.

  Mo Yan

  Writing, Winning, Persons

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• On a personal level, I love the idea of hosting an awards show. I think that sounds like kind of a fun thing to do.

  Zachary Levi

  Fun, Thinking, Ideas

  "Spike VGAs Interview: Meet Your Host, Zachary Levi". Interview with Charles Webb, www.mtv.com. December 5, 2011.

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• It's something you dream about as a kid. Like when you play all those NCAA video games as a kid and you create your own player and win the Heisman with a bunch of crazy numbers. It's the biggest, most prestigious award in college football, so it'd definitely be a dream come true.

  Johnny Manziel

  Football, Dream, Crazy

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• I've always said about awards that they're meaningless until you win one, and then they're best thing in the world. The other thing about awards is that they engender respect from areas where it might never have come from without it.

  Jacki Weaver

  Winning, World, Might

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

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• I do acting for the awards... and cash money.

  Rebel Wilson

  Acting, Cash, Cash Money

  "Rebel Wilson's jokes at MTV Movie Awards make it her 'breakthrough' night" by Katie Calautti, www.mtv.com. April 15, 2013.

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• Americans are always mortified when I tell them this, but in England, it's a tradition to put your plaques and photographs and awards and gold records and stuff in your bathroom. I don't know why.

  Adele

  Gold, Records, Stuff

  "Women in Music: Adele". Interview with April Long, www.elle.com. June 15, 2009.

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• The annual award of $5,000 goes to an author for a meritorious book published in the previous year for children or young adults. Scott O'Dell established this award to encourage other writers--particularly new authors--to focus on historical fiction. He hoped in this way to increase the interest of young readers in the historical background that has helped to shape their country and their world.

  Scott O'Dell

  Country, Children, Book

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• I am honored to be selected as the 2012 Miss Golden Globe. It's very exciting to be a part of an awards show like the Golden Globes so early on in my career.

  Rainey Qualley

  Careers, Missing, Golden

  "Andie MacDowell’s Daughter Rainey Qualley Named Miss Golden Globe". www.accessonline.com. December 8, 2011.

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• They're a redefinition of boredom... the most important thing you need to know about an awards show is where is the nearest smoking opportunity.

  Stephen Daldry

  Opportunity, Boredom, Smoking

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