Awards Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• I find there's almost no place to put an award that one's quite comfortable with.

  Mercedes Ruehl

  Comfortable

  "PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Mercedes Ruehl". Interview with Christine Ehren, www.playbill.com. May 21, 2002.

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

  Stephen Dorff

  Villain

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• So many people have won Emmys, so many people have won multiple Emmys that I think it's a degraded award.

  Tony Randall

  Thinking, Aggravation, People

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• I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award.

  Aaron Neville

  Cardinals, Heard, Chosen

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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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• The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.

  Harold Pinter

  Country, Years, Companion

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• I get nervous before everything - dates, filming, awards shows.

  Taylor Lautner

  Nervous, Shows, Award Shows

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• I'm the world's most famous photographer, most sought after photographer, most awarded photographer.

  Peter Lik

  Success, Photography, World

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• Thank you so much for breaking my heart because you got me four Grammys.

  Sam Smith

  Funny, Thank You, Humorous

  "Before He Was A Grammy Winner - A Conversation With Sam Smith". Interview with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. February 9, 2015.

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• The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award.

  Javier Bardem

  Order, People, Important

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• Just look at all the awards shows now. It has turned into a catwalk. You have to be wearing a certain designer, a certain dress, and everyone's critiquing.

  Portia de Rossi

  Dresses, Looks, Designer

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

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• I've never been in this business for the recognition or the awards. I just want to do good work, grab a decent paycheck, and move onto the next job.

  William Petersen

  Jobs, Moving, Want

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• My friend made me a leather dress for the MTV awards. It gives you confidence, wearing something you love.

  Cat Deeley

  Mtv, Giving, Dresses

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• It's not just about filming, you go to awards and interviews too. I enjoy all of it, even learning my lines!

  Christopher Parker

  Lines, Interviews, Enjoy

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• Grammys, American Music Awards, successful albums, I'd pick my kids any day over any of it.

  Toni Braxton

  Kids, Successful, Albums

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

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• Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award.

  Elfriede Jelinek

  Deserving It, Expression, Would Be

  Interview with Marika Griehsel, www.nobelprize.org. November, 2004.

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• The last thing I want is to walk into my house after a long day and see all the Grammys and awards. It would make me feel weird.

  Alicia Keys

  Long, House, Want

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• A lot of my joy this year has been to give away awards to young people, no matter of race, creed or color, because they were a terrific violinist or a terrific dancer.

  Sally Kirkland

  Race, Color, Years

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• Me and my partner, Conway Twitty, cleaned up at the 1972 Country Music Association Awards.

  Loretta Lynn

  Country, Association, Partners

  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, Vintage

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• It's the biggest party in the world, and you have to keep the whole thing percolating, which is difficult because a lot of awards most people don't care about.

  Bruce Vilanch

  Party, People, World

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• I dress up for awards, but only if somebody else is going to pay for the clothes. And shop for them, too!

  Tea Leoni

  Clothes, Dresses, Pay

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

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• I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me.

  Paula Cole

  Artistic, My Own

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• I've seen some great write ups and I emailed her the other night because I saw her on an awards show recently.

  Nia Long

  Writing, Night, Saws

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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