Awards Quotes - Page 33

• It's what I do. I don't deserve any awards for this, it's just music. It's just writing songs. You sit down, you write a song, you record it. You tour and play the songs live, dress them up a bit differently, or dress them down.

  Elvis Costello

  Song, Writing, Play

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• Here's the thing - I mean, I don't act for statues. I really don't. The great thing about winning an award is that it creates opportunities.

  Kevin Bacon

  Mean, Winning, Opportunity

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• I'm not an awards-driven person in anything. Anytime you do get caught up in that, you usually end up getting whacked.

  Alec Baldwin

  Driven, Ends, Caught

  "What Rocks Alec's World?". Interview with Choire Sicha, articles.latimes.com. August 6, 2008.

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• The great thing with film is that it doesn't have an ego. It's just a film. Everybody that makes them has an ego, and the problem with awards and stuff like that is that it always affects the egos, and everyone gets stained by it in some way. And that can be fine and very innocent, but it can be horrible as well.

  Danny Boyle

  Ego, Stuff, Way

  Interview with Chris Tilly, www.ign.com. January 7, 2009.

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• The hoopla with all the award season is kind of mind-boggling. It kind of puts you on your heels.

  Jeff Bridges

  Mind, Kind, Heels

  "Actor Jeff Bridges". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. January 10, 2011.

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• When you get performance slots for award shows - that's a big deal for me.

  Luke Bryan

  Bigs, Shows, Deals

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• I have heard of bloggers who don't accept awards. I accept them with open arms...why not? When we spread the love and gratitude around, we have more love and gratitude to give.

  Katherine Jenkins

  Gratitude, Positivity, Giving

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• Marketing is not about your agency winning awards. It's about your organization winning business.

  David Meerman Scott

  Inspirational, Winning, Agency

  David Meerman Scott (2015). “The New Rules of Marketing and PR: How to Use Social Media, Online Video, Mobile Applications, Blogs, News Releases, and Viral Marketing to Reach Buyers Directly”, p.37, John Wiley & Sons

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• Despite what The Wall Street Journal says, our awards are the best-kept secret in America, with the possible exception of what George W. Bush did in the '70s.

  Billy Crystal

  Wall, Best Kept Secrets, America

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• It feels like a rash. It suddenly seems like I've got a contagion of diseases, I mean awards. But it's nice, it's a nice feeling. It's so weird, because I'm only 46. A lifetime Achievement award... it feels like 'I'm not over yet'. I hope they're not trying to say it's time to stop. I'm only just getting the gist of it.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Nice, Mean, Achievement

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• I love awards, especially if I get them. It's up to the courage of the filmmakers to make art in cinema, not just business. John was rejected by studios, he borrowed money and did movies with his own money. You're either courageous or not. You have to find a way.

  Ben Gazzara

  Art, Cinema, Way

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• Awards that ignore me are losers.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Loser, Ignore Me

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Fifty years ago my Mother stood on this stage accepting this award; She was fortunate enough to have my Dad with her. Fifty years later, I'm fortunate enough to have my Dad with me. I love you, Dad.

  Mariska Hargitay

  Mother, Dad, Love You

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

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• Naturally, I was thrilled but being the first year, the Academy Awards had no background or tradition, and it naturally didn’t mean what it does now. Had I known then what it would come to mean in the next few years, I’m sure I’d have been overwhelmed. At the time, I think I was more thrilled over meeting Douglas Fairbanks.

  Janet Gaynor

  Mean, Thinking, Years

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

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• I don't have role models or watch much TV. I go to awards ceremonies but often I don't even know who the people are. I think that's good, because then you don't have preconceived ideas about them.

  Christopher Parker

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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• I have been blessed to win a number of awards and be involved in numerous historical baseball moments over my 20-year career with the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres.

  Steve Garvey

  Baseball, Blessed, Winning

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• I have awards right now that I do not remember walking on stage to get.

  Kenny Rogers

  Remember, Stage, Walking

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• Iloved Ashley Hope Perez's heartbreaking Out of Darkness set in late the 1930s in a small town Texas. It should win all the YA awards.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Winning, Texas, Darkness

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I've never really topped myself, because awards in themselves really don't reflect major accomplishment. It's kind of a strange, backslapping ritual that we go through in this town where you get awards for almost everything. For surviving the day you're going to get awards.

  Rod Serling

  Accomplishment, Towns, Strange

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• I think I'd rather win, for example, a Writer's Guild award than almost anything on earth. And the few nominations I've had with the guild, and the few awards I've had, represented to me a far more legitimate concrete achievement than anything.

  Rod Serling

  Thinking, Winning, Achievement

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• If a movie is nominated for, say, an Academy award, that movie will instantly become popular in Japan. There's always been a bit of a complex the Japanese have about being taken seriously in the West.

  Hirokazu Koreeda

  Taken, Japan, West

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Well, it's pretty ironic to get an artist achievement award from the same foundation that disavowed one of my artistic achievements (that they had also earlier funded). It's a goddamn brainteaser. The Endowment had reinforced the worst bullying tactics of powerful lobbying groups and had created a less-secure environment for their own funded project to do its work in

  Jon Rubin

  Bullying, Powerful, Artist

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The fact remains that books that really put gay people in the center, and especially books that do so in a way that is sexually explicit, tend not to get a great deal of mainstream attention: they don't tend to sell well, and they don't tend to win major awards. This makes the occasional exception, like Alan Hollinghurst, all the more remarkable.

  Garth Greenwell

  Book, Gay, Winning

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• However, unlike some of my friends and students, I don't think it's a laughing matter. I think it is frightening to see what outrageous stories can be told in the United States and then are accepted by many educated people and academics as facts. Movies get awards, books become best sellers, heroes are made, and people become wealthy as a result of dishonest caricatures of Iranian people and society.

  Mohammad Marandi

  Hero, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Tom Ford just started at Gucci and was getting great notoriety - like Madonna wearing that head-to-toe velvet suit at the MTV awards. I remember it like it was yesterday.

  Roopal Patel

  Yesterday, Mtv, Toes

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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