Awards Quotes - Page 5

• I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943.

  John Pople

  College, October, Examination

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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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• 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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• 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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• The flattery is nice, but awards don't add up to writing quality songs.

  Chantal Kreviazuk

  Song, Nice, Writing

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• I love what I'm doing most of the time, but it's hard work. People only see your albums in the charts. They see us at award shows and after-show parties. They don't know about your doubts, the hard work that goes in.

  Gavin Rossdale

  Party, Hard Work, People

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• I worked three and then six hours a day in my studio with strict discipline and emotion. I obtained awards usually granted to other foreigners during the end-of-year admission tests.

  Ralph Allen

  Years, Discipline, Three

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• An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it.

  Alejandro Amenabar

  Distance, Mean, Thinking

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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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• If you stick around long enough, people start referring to you as a survivor. Suddenly I found myself on the receiving end of several prestigious awards.

  Martha Reeves

  Long, People, Receiving

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• The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.

  Robert Graves

  Writing, Gold, Purity

  Robert Graves (1962). “Oxford Addresses on Poetry”

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• This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Meaningful, Celluloid, Dealer

  On receiving American Film Institute's 1979 Lifetime Achievement Award, recalled on his death, April 29, 1980.

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• When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.

  Jack Nicholson

  School, Pimples, Gross

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• To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Noise, Way

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• The older you get, the more awards you get. So, if you live long enough, then you get all the awards eventually.

  Kirk Douglas

  Long, Enough, Ifs

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• I never knew I'd be in a musical, let alone win an award for one.

  Nicole Kidman

  Winning, Musical

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

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• The Nobel Prize is given as a personal award but it also honors the field of research in which I have worked and it also honors my students and colleagues.

  Robert Hofstadter

  Honor, Fields, Research

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• I was put under contract. A major studio. I got nominated for an Academy Award. Isn't that ridiculous? I mean, at the age of 18!

  Angela Lansbury

  Mean, Age, Ridiculous

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• I couldn't stop looking at the award when I received it. It was as if my whole career flashed in front of me, from beginning to the moment I was handed the Golden Globe.

  Sharon Stone

  Careers, Golden, Moments

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• Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.

  Bill Murray

  Acting, Campaigns, Disdain

  "Murray Upset at Oscar Result". www.sfgate.com. March 2, 2004.

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• I'm awkward at these things. Just being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Karate Kid was a real surprise and I was a little uncomfortable.

  Pat Morita

  Real, Kids, Awkward

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• Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging.

  Barbra Streisand

  Giving, Discouraging, Knows

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• If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit Awards.

  Annie Proulx

  Smart, Independent, Years

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• Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective.

  John Lithgow

  Perspective, Bigs, Statues

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• Some people work hard in this business and become really popular, really big stars but they never receive an award from within the business. Somehow, when your colleagues and friends believe in you to the point of handing you an award it means so much more.

  Sharon Stone

  Friends, Stars, Believe

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