Awards Quotes - Page 32

• 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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• Thanks to the critics and thanks to the Emmys, we got all sorts of great reviews and notices and awards, at the start. Part of it is that it's great fortune to have something to live up to, but as creative people, we all have to just put that aside and go forward, make the best product we can, have as joyous of an experience as we can, and really remember that the spirit of this was to surprise the fans with something that they didn't see coming.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  People, Creative, Fans

  Source: collider.com

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• It's great to be recognized for work, and the work is great, but once you have the awards, it becomes less important. It just gives you the ability to do better work, in my opinion.

  Janusz Kaminski

  Giving, Important, Opinion

  Source: collider.com

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• The fact that there are awards and exhibitions and some people know who I am is just all gravy. I'm lucky to just work in an industry where I get to play so much.

  Rick Heinrichs

  Who I Am, Play, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Unfortunately, as far as the music is concerned, what defines relevance is whether you are on the radio or whether you are on the cover of a magazine or whether you're winning MTV awards, and so on and so forth.

  Larry Mullen, Jr.

  Winning, Mtv, Magazines

  Source: collider.com

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• The reason I keep acting is that it fuels some kind of passion in me, but the day that those butterflies stop, is the day that I'm gonna quit because I could care less about the magazines or being famous or the money or the awards.

  Shailene Woodley

  Passion, Butterfly, Acting

  Source: collider.com

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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'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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• When Chuck House wanted to develop the oscilloscope for HP, David Packard told him to abandon the project. Chuck went on "vacation" and came back with $2 million in orders. Packard later gave him an award inscribed with an accolade for "extraordinary contempt and defiance beyond the normal call of engineering."

  Bob Sutton

  Vacation, Engineering, Order

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• You don't make movies to win awards. You make movies because you want people to see them.

  Robin Tunney

  Winning, People, Want

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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 don't look for boyfriends, I don't really scour the awards shows for who I'm going to date, but I think love happens when you're not looking for it, and when it happens, I'm not going to be the one to overthink it.

  Taylor Swift

  Thinking, Looks, Shows

  "Country singer Taylor Swift takes 'Fearless' approach to stardom". Interview with Nekesa Mumbi Moody, www.metro.us. May 28, 2009.

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• To date, [Wynton] Marsalis has received a total of nine Grammy Awards; a Pulitzer Prize (the first ever awarded to a jazz musician)... and twenty-nine honorary degrees, including Columbia, Brown, Princeton and Yale; the National Medal of Arts; and numerous awards from other countries.

  Randy Sandke

  Country, Art, Yale

  Randy Sandke (2010). “Where the dark and the light folks meet: race and the mythology, politics, and business of jazz”, Scarecrow Pr

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• You know those award shows. The cliche is that it's an honor just to be nominated, but that happens to be true. Whoever wins it in the end, I don't know, sometimes it feels arbitrary. Sometimes it feels like it's deserving.

  Hank Azaria

  Winning, Honor, Arbitrary

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• I would honestly say that with all the awards and all the other things that I've done in my life, Dollywood is one of the greatest dreams that I've ever had come true - I am so proud of that I can't even begin to tell you, Dollywood is real special to me.

  Dolly Parton

  Dream, Real, Special

  "Dollywood Turns 25", www.foxnews.com. April 15, 2010.

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• Still, I kept writing. I had no guarantee that I would someday win awards for writing. Heavens, the only person during that time who seemed to think I could write something worth publishing was my loyal husband. But I always remembered the professor from graduate school who urged me to write and who recommended me for that first writing assignment in 1964. When I protested to Sara Little that I didn't want to add another mediocre writer to the world, she gently reminded me that if I didn't dare mediocrity, I would never write anything at all.

  Katherine Paterson

  Husband, Writing, School

  Katherine Paterson (2001). “The Invisible Child: On Reading and Writing Books for Children”, Dutton Juvenile

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• Those who promote the politically correct theory are favored with billions from government grants and neo-Marxist environmentalist largesse, and official recognition and award. Faked and tampered data and evidence has arisen in favor of the politically correct theory. Is not man-caused, catastrophic global warming now the only theory allowed to be taught in the West?

  Peter Ferrara

  Men, Data, Favors

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• It's always made me feel odd when I'd get a Dove Award for an instrumental album that has nothing to do with gospel. When I think of gospel music, I think of spreading the Good News with words. But maybe it's just because I was heralded once upon a time as one of theirs. The category of instrumental music seems sort of important to the big picture, but I felt a little embarrassed at the same time.

  Phil Keaggy

  Thinking, Once Upon A Time, Important

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• Do you think that Gwendolyn Brooks would give an award to someone who hated Black women, the lie that was circulated throughout New York and reached all the way down to Martinique where I was a guest Professor? The lie was circulated by people who don't read my books.

  Ishmael Reed

  New York, Lying, Book

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• MTV Awards are fun - it's MTV! You never know what's going to happen. It's a slice of pop culture in the moment, and you can't take it too seriously.

  Megan Alexander

  Fun, Mtv, Culture

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• As a major country music fan, the CMA awards are my favorite!

  Megan Alexander

  Country, Fans, My Favorite

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• I don't bask in the awards I've won, read my bank statements, I refuse. To me, that's how you start losing the hunger.

  Questlove

  Losing, Hunger, Refuse

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