Awards Quotes - Page 27

• 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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• I'd like ten more babies and ten more chihuahuas and a few Academy Awards. Meanwhile, I enjoy being a sex symbol and making people happy.

  Jayne Mansfield

  Baby, Sex, People

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

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• I just want to thank people who take big risks in their daily lives when there aren't cameras rolling. I want to dedicate this award to people who stand up for peace and against injustice and intolerance.

  Paul Haggis

  People, Risk, Cameras

  "The Oscars, minute by minute" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2006.

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• If I want to be up for an Academy Award, I'm either going to have to play a tour de force of some kind or have a tracheotomy just before the nominations.

  Burt Reynolds

  Play, Want, Nominations

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

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• I'm not out trying to prove anything. All I'm trying to do is go out there and help my team any way I can to win. I don't get caught up in the individual stats or the awards.

  Steve McNair

  Team, Winning, Trying

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• I actually got a part in 'The Love Guru', that Mike Myers film. I heard it's awful. I got a Razzie award for it, which I'm quite proud of, but I still haven't seen it. I have no plans to branch out.

  Daniel Tosh

  Funny, Branches, Proud

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

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• Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity.

  Charles Ives

  Mediocrity, Badges

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• Fantasy gets a mixed reception - a lot of fantasy is formulaic but most of the award-winning fantasy on the contrary tends to be the stuff at the edges of the genre, rather than swimming in the middle.

  Graham Joyce

  Swimming, Winning, Stuff

  "Graham Joyce wins fantasy award and makes sports book award longlist" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2009.

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• Awards, they come and go. The main thing is it's all about team.

  Seimone Augustus

  Team, Comes And Goes

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• I get an award for being the best dressed, but at the end of the day I'm not Daphne Guinness. I don't like people to look at me for my dress. The letter is more important than the envelope. But if you feel good in your envelope, then you will feel better about yourself.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Feel Better, People, Feel Good

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• The reputation is not essentially built by earning too much, learning too many things, achieving awards, bagging rewards or catapulting position to the hilt; but by unquestionably staying simple, humble , well grounded and doing nothing that makes own conscience to feel guilt.

  Anuj

  Humble, Simple, Guilt

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• The Grammys are supposed to be awards for artistic excellence… Iggy Azalea’s not excellent.

  Azealia Banks

  Azaleas, Excellence, Artistic

  "Azealia Banks And Iggy Azalea Are Going At It Again" by Adam Fleischer, www.mtv.com. December 19, 2014.

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• I think anytime you get nominated for an award, its a very humbling thing.

  David Nail

  Thinking, Humbling

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• When I left I got an award for being the latest person in the history of the school. If you got three late marks for being over fifteen minutes late you’d get an after school detention. I got something like 257 marks. And I only lived about ten minutes away.

  Matthew Bellamy

  School, Three, Fifteen

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

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• I'm very enthusiastic about the Academy Awards because if there were no Oscars, we wouldn't have as many good movies as we do have.

  Robert Osborne

  Good Movie, Oscars, Enthusiastic

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• I think that no matter whether you're Quentin Tarantino or any other kind of a rebel, or whatever, everyone who makes movies still wants to win an Academy Award, because it's like the Pulitzer Prize or the Congressional Medal of Honor.

  Robert Osborne

  Winning, Thinking, Honor

  Interview with Noel Murray, tv.avclub.com. January 31, 2011.

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• There is no solid satisfaction in any career for a woman like myself. There is no home, no true freedom, no hope, no joy, no expectation for tomorrow, no contentment. I would rather cook a meal for a man and bring him his slippers and feel myself in the protection of his arms than have all the citations and awards and honors I have received worldwide, including the Ribbon of Legion of Honor and my property and my bank accounts. They mean nothing to me. And I am only one among the millions of sad women like myself.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Women, Home, Mean

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• I've done plenty of daredeviling - from white-water rafting to bungee jumping. But I think the most fearless was hosting the Emmy Awards. It was overwhelming, and I definitely had to leave fear at the door.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Thinking, Jumping, Doors

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• I won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American.

  Michael Caine

  House, Cider, Academy

  "Michael Caine: 'I Spent My Life Doing Something That I Love'". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel and Melissa Block, peconicpublicbroadcasting.org. May 30, 2013.

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• I agree to the fight. The award, which is getting for these hardships, it is exorbitantly large. It is the joy of life.

  Jerzy Kukuczka

  Fighting, Joy, Hardship

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• I was very aware when I went to the Academy Awards that it would probably be my first and last time. So I thought my input should really be about fertility, and I thought I'd bring some eggs.

  Bjork

  Eggs, Input, Lasts

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• One of the most memorable live performances of my career took place on the 2002 American Music Awards show when I had to the opportunity to sing with Elton John. I was moved by the way he played the piano onstage.

  Tim McGraw

  Memorable, Opportunity, Careers

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