Awards Quotes - Page 26

• We've been around long enough and have been to enough award shows to know that it is easy to lose to Phil Collins at any time.

  Matt Stone

  Long, Easy, Enough

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

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• My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don't even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it's like awards don't mean anything.

  Barbra Streisand

  Mean, Together, Rooms

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

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• 'The Story of Us' is about running into someone I had been in a relationship with at an awards show, and we were seated a few seats away from each other. I just wanted to say to him, 'Is this killing you? Because it's killing me.' But I didn't. Because I couldn't. Because we both had these silent shields up.

  Taylor Swift

  Running, Stories, Shields

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• I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die.

  James Taylor

  Achievement, Sometimes, Wonder

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

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• If I go to an awards ceremony, I wear a suit, of course I do. I am proud to be there. If there are young kids looking at pictures of me, I want them to feel that they should long for the opportunity to go somewhere really smart and wear a beautiful suit, rather than to reject that.

  Tinie Tempah

  Beautiful, Smart, Kids

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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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• I've not won different awards - many, many times - so luckily I've practiced that whenever you are nominated for anything, you enter into this marvelous, fantabulous bubble called the bubble of nomination. The minute the envelope is opened and your name isn't called out, the bubble bursts. And no one calls you up the next day to say, 'So sorry you didn't win,' or 'You looked gorgeous - nothing. If you win, you get about another 24 hours in that lovely bubble and then - pop - you are slightly wet all over from the bubble and realize that you have to get on with real life.

  Helen Mirren

  Sorry, Real, Winning

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• As an actor you're only supposed to be a lover. I am a romantic hero though I don't like that tag. With all the hardships, problems, illness, goodness, badness, awards and money... an actor will always be a lover. And a lover makes mistakes. You'll be silly, nonsensical and stupid.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Mistake, Stupid, Silly

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• It's sort of a meat market, the whole awards thing, and I don't think you can predict it anymore - who's going to like what you've done, if it's worthy or not. And hopefully, that's not why you make a film, because if you're distracted by that, or only striving for that, you don't do it justice.

  Emily Blunt

  Thinking, Justice, Meat

  The AMC Interview, www.amc.com. 2010.

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• I don't think I've done any profound work yet... People ask me, 'How would you want to be remembered?' I tell them I don't want to be remembered! I'm not here to become a Madhubala or receive a Lifetime Achievement Award. I'm not that kind of a person. And I'm not brash about it; it's just the way I am.

  Bipasha Basu

  Thinking, People, Profound

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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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• The prince who relies upon their words, without having otherwise provided for his security, is ruined; for friendships that are won by awards, and not by greatness and nobility of soul, although deserved, yet are not real, and cannot be depended upon in time of adversity.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Time, Real, Adversity

  "The Prince". Book by Niccolo Machiavelli, 1513.

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• A few years ago, I won a Tony for Little Me and I learned two important lessons from that experience. 1. Fair-weather friends are so much more interesting to be around and 2. It's amazing what this award fetches on E-Bay.

  Martin Short

  Years, Weather, Two

  "The 58th Annual Tony Awards". TV Special, www.imdb.com. June 06, 2004.

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• Just once it might be instructive to pretend you're accepting an award for failure, just to see who you would thank.

  Robert Breault

  Failure, Might, Accepting

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• I am, incidentally, the only writer to have received the Somerset Maugham award twice - the first time for my first novel, the second time for my second first novel.

  Martin Amis

  Firsts, First Time, Novel

  Martin Amis (2017). “The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1986-2016”, p.104, Random House

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• Tony Awards boost Broadway attendance and sell the shows on the road. They're the sugar to swat the fly. If you needed more explanation for the yearly ballyhoo, in the metropolitan areas where a Broadway show plays, the local economy is boosted by three and a half times the gross ticket sales. So when we're talking Tonys, we're talking moolah.

  John Lahr

  Talking, Play, Three

  "Lahr’s Tony Picks: The 2012 Edition". www.newyorker.com.

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• It is a great honor for me to be presented the award by Mikhail Gorbachev and also to be acknowledged with the World Actress Award at the Women World Awards Gala 2005.

  Teri Hatcher

  Honor, World, Actresses

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