Awards Quotes - Page 3

• The MVP award was very satisfying in terms of personal accomplishments, but the championship was the most important thing of all.

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Mvp, Accomplishment

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• I liked getting the best villain award. I thought that was funny.

  Stephen Dorff

  Villain

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• Also, I've already won all the awards.

  Neil Gaiman

  Literature, Already Won

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• I really wanted the MTV Award the most, It was a golden popcorn container and it looks really neat.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Mtv, Popcorn, Looks

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• At awards time, The Exorcist was nominated in 11 categories, everybody but the janitor was up for an Oscar. There was no category for what I did.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Oscars, Exorcist, Categories

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• The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women.

  Marguerite Young

  Money, Association, Firsts

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• At The Body Shop we had always been measured by how many jobs we had created, and I got a major award from the Queen on that.

  Anita Roddick

  Jobs, Queens, Body

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• The love of these people and of my fans mean more than any award or special accomplishment.

  Wynonna Judd

  Mean, People, Accomplishment

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• Things with my dad were pretty good until I won an Academy Award. He was really loving to me until I got more attention than he did. Then he hated me.

  Tatum O'Neal

  Dad, Attention, Hated

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• I am delighted to have had students, friends and colleagues in so many nations and to have learned so much of what I know from them. This Nobel Award honours them all.

  John Pople

  Students, Nobel, Colleagues

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• Because Olivia Newton-John wasn't from Nashville, they didn't like her winning our awards. I've got no complaints.

  Loretta Lynn

  Winning, Nashville, Olivia

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• I get cassettes near Academy Award time of every movie that's made that thinks it has some kind of chance for a nomination - that's when I watch my movies

  William Peter Blatty

  Thinking, Watches, Nominations

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• Awards don't really mean much.

  Uta Hagen

  Mean, Really Mean

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• The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure

  Patty Duke

  Rights, Treasure, Eleanor

  Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.295, Bantam

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• I'd say my happiest moment as an actress came when I learned I'd won the Look Magazine Best Supporting Actress Award for 1956 in The Killing.

  Marie Windsor

  Looks, Magazines, Actresses

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• I could have a roomful of awards and it wouldn't mean beans

  Bobby Darin

  Mean, Beans

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• I'm glad I won it because when I grew up the Pulitzer was the award that every composer wanted and I was like that too.

  John Corigliano

  Grew Up, Composer, Wanted

  "The Gospel According To John Corigliano". Interview with Frank J. Oteri, www.newmusicbox.org. February 1, 2005.

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• You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award.

  John Corigliano

  Winning, Thinking, Composer

  "The Gospel According To John Corigliano". Interview with Frank J. Oteri, www.newmusicbox.org. February 1, 2005.

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• My awards are lovely. I love to show them of.

  Doris Roberts

  Lovely, Shows

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• Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed.

  Neil Gaiman

  Funny, Writing, Fate

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• My earlier award was also based on a close collaborative effort.

  John Bardeen

  Effort, Collaborative Effort

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• Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.

  Michael Caine

  Careers, Firsts, Slipping

  "Success? I never expected it, says Caine" by Dan Glaister, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 1999.

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• I love to cook. I make an award-winning turkey chili.

  Joely Fisher

  Winning, Turkeys, Cooks

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

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• I am proud to be a role model for my viewers. I am finding out that helping victims is as or more rewarding the all the awards I win.

  Mariska Hargitay

  Winning, Role Models, Roles

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• Awards shows are my greatest inducement to get back into shape.

  Jane Kaczmarek

  Shapes, Shows, Get Back

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