Awards Quotes - Page 25

• It's impossible for me to think of music as a contest. All of the awards ceremonies, I mean I'm sure they're fun for people, but they have no meaning to me.

  Greg Brown

  Fun, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• But we came for the Kennedy Center Awards, which was an incredible honor. Being a British person, I was bestowed this honor. And my partner and I, David, came. And we were so pleasantly surprised by George Bush and his knowledge of AIDS. He really - he treated David and I - and Laura - treated us like - they were so friendly and so courteous.

  Elton John

  Honor, Friendly, Incredibles

  "Elton John on AIDS: Compassion is Part of the Cure". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. July 24, 2012.

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• I think, ultimately you know in your heart how much work you've done. You know what you're doing, if you're being honest on stage or not. That's all you being you. But when you acknowledges it - especially with a Tony Award nomination - you just can't help with the guilty pleasure!

  Laura Bell Bundy

  Heart, Thinking, Nominations

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Hwang Jung-eun is one of the brightest stars of the new South Korean generation - she's Han Kang's favourite, and the novel we're publishing scooped the prestigious Bookseller's Award, for critically-acclaimed fiction that also has a wide popular appeal. She stands out for her focus on social minorities - her protagonists are slum inhabitants, trans women, orphans - and for the way she melds this hard-edged social critique with obliquely fantastical elements and offbeat dialogue.

  Deborah Smith

  Stars, Focus, Generations

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Adrienne Rich was one of the most widely-read and influential poets of her time, a leading feminist, known especially for her politically-engaged verse. Her best-known volume, "Diving into the Wreck," won the National Book Award in 1973.

  Earl Scruggs

  Book, Feminist, Wrecks

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• No matter how accomplished or how many awards you get, you're always still thinking there's somebody out there who's better than you.

  Paul McCartney

  Thinking, Matter, Accomplished

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Certain Academy Awards like Sound and Visual Effects and Editing are sometimes referred to as technical awards. They're not technical awards. They're given for artistic decisions. And sometimes we make them better than others, and I guess we made a couple of good ones on this one.

  Randy Thom

  Couple, Editing, Decision

  "Potato, potahto, craft, tech, let’s call the whole thing off", uproxx.com. November 16, 2011.

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• I was living in the U.K. I was back in New Zealand for the New Zealand Music Awards, which is like our annual New Zealand GRAMMYs.

  Ladyhawke

  Annuals, New Zealand

  Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. June 23, 2016.

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• Lucy Lawless presented a couple of the awards. And, when I walked off the stage with her after one of them, she said "Oh, I want to introduce you to my friend Madeleine," and that's how I met Madeleine. I realize that's a ridiculous story.

  Ladyhawke

  Couple, Stories, Want

  Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. June 23, 2016.

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• Producers are looking to me to concept full worlds for subjects to compete, play a game show in, win an award, blah blah blah.

  James Pearse Connelly

  Winning, Play, Games

  "What goes into designing The Biggest Loser's sets, stages, and chill rooms?". Interview with AVC, tv.avclub.com. June 27, 2016.

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• If you watch the award shows, you'll see variations of the hammer pants. It's always cool to see that and then every now and then, you'll see an artist who's pushing the envelope and it may not be all the way there but you can see where it's coming from. I'm always appreciative of seeing my influence.

  MC Hammer

  Artist, Variation, May

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Going back to the elementary school days, I was always drawing. I entered a Victory poster competition and won the top award that recognized my artistic instincts.

  Paul Smith

  School, Drawing, Competition

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• I think I learned a lot on Beaches. A guy I worked with Dante Spinotti is a wonderful cinematographer and it was his first picture and he went on to be nominated for an Academy Award for "LA Confidential" which was great.

  Garry Marshall

  Beach, Thinking, Guy

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I'm not trying to win an award for being the best vegetarian, just want to be healthy.

  Erykah Badu

  Winning, Healthy, Trying

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 8, 2013.

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• One of the many reasons I love living in New York is that we get a front row seat to the innumerable thrills that take place here - from conventions and awards shows, to parades and U.N. assemblies. But my favorite New York tradition is the annual New Year's Eve ball-drop on Times Square.

  Marlo Thomas

  New Year, New York, Squares

  "An Especially Happy New Year" by Marlo Thomas, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 29, 2013.

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• As far as Deep Purple goes, I mean, they're iconic. Their contribution is unquantifiable, and as far as the politics involved in things like awards, you know, I don't think anything, because I know what they mean to me, and I know what they mean to the people who like them. Awards are very politically based.

  Steve Vai

  Mean, Thinking, Purple

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

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• You don't want to be flattered and become big-headed by getting awards. But, well, I am.

  Johnny Vegas

  Want, Bigs, Wells

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• Awards movies are normally sort of... life-affirming and noble. It's probably too much of an intellectual conceit and, you know, people don't like it when you don't lead the bad guy off in cuffs.

  David Fincher

  People, Guy, Intellectual

  "EXCLUSIVE: David Fincher Talks Zodiac: Director's Cut". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. January 7, 2008.

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• I live a very ordinary life. The rare awards ceremonies I go to are quite fun, because I can enjoy the irony of one minute walking to the tube, and the next being driven along the same stretch of road in a limo.

  Jonathan Pryce

  Fun, Ordinary, Limos

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We suppose that could be considered a hedged position for the awards committee, one that would never occur in the hard sciences such as physics and chemistry, where a prize shared among three with divergent views would be an embarrassing mistake or a bad joke. While a Nobel Prize might well be the culmination of a life’s work, shouldn’t the work accurately describe the real world?

  Seth Klarman

  Real, Mistake, Views

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• As a city powered by our country's knowledge economy, Toronto will continue to benefit from developing, attracting and retaining the world's most promising young researchers at the University of Toronto. Our government will continue to invest in research awards that lead to long-term social and economic benefits for Canadians.

  Peter Van Loan

  Country, Cities, Government

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• I've never won an award for anything, and I think it's weird. I mean, that's really cool but it's strange to think you could get an award for acting. I always thought that was strange.

  Bobby Cannavale

  Mean, Thinking, Acting

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• Titles or awards are not the mark of your success. They are the beginning of a life-long sadhana.

  Shreya Ghoshal

  Long, Titles, Mark

  "Queen of charts". Interview with Chitra Swaminathan, www.thehindu.com. September 6, 2013.

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• I have to say that my biggest Award is performing in front of my fans. Their love is my award.

  Shreya Ghoshal

  Love Is, Fans, Performing

  "Chai with Manju talks to Shreya Ghoshal about her life and music". “Chai with Manju” with Dr. Manju Sheth, indianewengland.com. Ocotber 1, 2013.

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• I couldn't speak Japanese very well, passport regulations were changing, I felt British and my future was in Britain. And it would also make me eligible for literary awards. But I still think I'm regarded as one of their own in Japan.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Thinking, Japan, Literature

  "Living memories" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2005.

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