Awards Quotes - Page 34

• 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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• My philosophy about the whole thing is that awards are like gifts: it's lovely to receive them, and it is very bad form to covet them.

  Charlie Hunnam

  Philosophy, Lovely, Form

  "EMMYS: 'Sons Of Anarchy's Charlie Hunnam". Interview with Megan Masters, deadline.com. June 10, 2012.

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• The fact that "Léon: The Professional" doesn't have every award in the world is a sign that it is underrated. I'm not even ashamed to say that I cried during every scene.

  Ryan Hall

  World, Facts, Scene

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• Would it be nice to win a film award one day? Yes. But the critics are going to have to wait till I'm ready. Right now, my gift is making big movies that audiences want to see.

  Brett Ratner

  Nice, Winning, Waiting

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• My mother has all my awards, because if I walked downstairs every day and saw all my achievements it would be so easy to become complacent.

  Lauryn Hill

  Mother, Achievement, Saws

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• All you do as a performer is keep doing it. If you keep doing it, then it depends on why you're doing it. If you're doing something for superficial, monumental reasons and if you're doing it for female attention, or if you're doing it for money, it's like being upset. Only way you can get upset is when you expecting something. If you don't get this award or don't get that award, that because you expect something.

  Bernie Mac

  Upset, Expecting Something, Female

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• Talent is one thing, it is how you nurture and develop it, and never walk away from it. You can be rich, successful, you win awards, but it can always be better.

  Kevin Spacey

  Successful, Winning, Talent

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• White people are very good at acting like they're not racist. They deserve an Academy Award for that.

  Paul Mooney

  White, People, Acting

  Source: www.complex.com

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• Joe DiMaggio was the greatest all-around player I ever saw. His career can not be summed up in numbers and awards. It might sound corny, but he had a profound and lasting impact on the country.

  Ted Williams

  Country, Player, Impact

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• So I accept these awards on behalf of the cake bakers and all of those other women who can do some things quite as important, if not more important, than flying, as well as in the name of women flying today.

  Amelia Earhart

  Women, Names, Cake

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• There are people who want awards because it changes the perception of the audience. But I'm not into all that.

  Salman Khan

  People, Perception, Want

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• The Nobel award occasions a unique celebration of the vision of science by the public at large. The prestige the prize confers today is largely due to the extraordinary diligence of the Nobel committees.

  Kenneth G. Wilson

  Science, Unique, Vision

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• I had a novel in the back of my mind when I won an Ian St James story competition in 1993. At the award ceremony an agent asked me if I was writing a novel. I showed her four or five chapters of what would become 'Behind the Scenes at the Museum' and to my surprise she auctioned them off.

  Kate Atkinson

  Writing, Museums, Competition

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• I get some of the nicest fan mail you could imagine. Also when I'm up for an award, my fans all vote online and then they'll boast to each other about how many thousands of times they've clicked my name. Their thumbs must be bleeding!

  Jason Isaacs

  Names, Fans, Thumbs

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• If Michelle Pfeiffer gave Mel Gibson a vial of blood to wear around his neck in a movie you'd think it was terribly romantic, everyone would cry and they'd win awards. But in real life if someone does that they'd be considered weird.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Movie, Real, Winning

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• The fans get to see you, and you can do great by your record if you have a great performance or a great night there. That's all part of the business. But at their core, awards shows are not really a sincere thing. For a lot of years, the artists had to pay to play their own set.

  Jay-Z

  Artist, Night, Years

  Interview With Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 11, 2010.

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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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