Awards Quotes - Page 22

• Please, I'd love to meet the guy you couldn't handle, and give him and award.

  Gena Showalter

  Giving, Guy, Please

  Gena Showalter (2015). “The White Rabbit Chronicles: Alice in Zombieland\Through the Zombie Glass\The Queen of Zombie Hearts”, p.242, Harlequin

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• We have no idea, but its not like we're going to win any awards for normalcy anytime soon. So you get into people's heads? The two of us can throw people around like toys. Zu once blew up an AC unit, and all she did was walk by it.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Winning, Ideas, Two

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• I'm not a comedian. I'm not a show host. I'm a musician. That's why I've turned down offers to host the Grammy Awards and the American Music Awards. Is it really entertaining for me to get up there and crack a few weak jokes and force people to laugh because I'm Michael Jackson, when I know in my heart that I'm not funny?

  Michael Jackson

  Heart, People, Laughing

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• The main criterion for an award (of a research contract from the NCI) is the capacity to demonstrate the relevance of the project to the program's target. But the only sure way to prove this relevance is to have, in fact, already proved it.

  June Goodfield

  Dark, Age, Target

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• Tim O'Brien's book about Vietnam, The Things They Carried, has won every award, is studied in college and is considered to be definitive. But it's fiction.

  Dave Eggers

  Book, College, Fiction

  "Dave Eggers: From 'staggering genius' to America's conscience". Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2010.

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• You know how people say awards don't mean anything? Hello! I think the energy around them makes everyone cuckoo.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• I always loved science. And in fact, I got a science award in high school. I mean, I loved science, but I think I loved literature more.

  Rita Dove

  School, Mean, Thinking

  "Rita Dove On New Anthology, Advice For Young Poets". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 2, 2012.

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• Books don't live and die by awards. You don't listen to an Hector Lavoe album because it won some awards.

  Junot Diaz

  Book, Albums, Hector

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• No matter how popular you are as a stand-up - you can go out and fill a 10,000-seat arena and be smart and funny - it's delicate to host an awards show and know where your place is and know that it's not about you, that it's about the people who are nominated, and respect that, but at the same time have your moment to show them who you are.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Smart, People

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• I have a TV Soap Boomerang award, and I always start my year with the Australian Open tennis! Tennis, soccer, you name it.

  Doug Davidson

  Soccer, Years, Names

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• If you wanna give me an award, I'll take it. Just don't make me go to the party afterwards.

  John Cusack

  Party, Giving, Give Me

  "'I'm basically a brand'". Interview with Ryan Gilbey, August 30, 2007.

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• Do awards change careers? Well, I haven't heard of many stories where that's the case. It's a fun excuse to meet colleagues and celebrate people who've done well that year in certain people's eyes, and it's nothing more than that.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Fun, Eye, Years

  "EMMYS: Benedict Cumberbatch On 'Sherlock'". Interview with Michael Ausiello, deadline.com. June 23, 2012.

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• Awards are great, as you get to meet up with friends and colleagues from your industry - a sort of reunion.

  Penelope Cruz

  Reunion, Colleagues, Industry

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• Awards are wonderful. I've been nominated many times and I've won many awards. But my journey is not towards that. If it happens it will be a blast. If it doesn't, it's still been a blast.

  Tom Cruise

  Journey, Wonderful, Blast

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

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• I think it's my nature to - every time I hear about an award or a nomination, it makes me realize how much I must've been losing before, because I was not aware that every major city had these critics' awards.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Thinking, Cities, Nominations

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• The reason most comedies don't win awards is that the filmmakers put the comedy first. This means you have to create a story around the jokes.

  Paul Feig

  Mean, Winning, Stories

  "'Bridesmaids' Director Paul Feig Reveals How Twitter Saved His Movie and Why Awards Matter (Q&A)". Interview with Stacey Wilson Hunt, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 22, 2011.

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• 'Reach for a (cigarette) instead of a sweet' - ...advertising slogan..(of) Albert Lasker, (with) Mary Lasker, health philanthropist, and originator of the Lasker Awards, an American version of the Nobel Prize. ...and Memorial Sloan Kettering trustees.

  Ralph W. Moss

  Sweet, Dark, Memorial

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• I was a big fan of how Johnny Carson hosted awards shows. Dick Cavett, as well, I think did a really great job of providing a nice blend of comedy, wit and class.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Jobs, Nice, Thinking

  "Tonys 2012: Q&A with Neil Patrick Harris on Eve of His Hosting Three-peat". "The Hollywood Reporter" Interview, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 6, 2012.

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• Let us award a just, a brilliant homage to those rare men whom nature has endowed with the precious privilege of arranging a thousand isolated facts, of making seductive theories spring from them; but let us not forget to state, that the scythe of the reaper had cut the stalks before one had thought of uniting them into sheaves!

  Francois Arago

  Nature, Spring, Cutting

  François Arago, Robert GRANT (F.R.A.S.), Baden Powell, William Henry SMYTH (Rear Admiral.) (1857). “Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men ... Translated by ... W. H. Smyth ... the Rev. Baden Powell ... and R. Grant”, p.264

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• I swore on screen when I got the Olivier for 'Legally Blonde,' I was so surprised. Awards where the public vote mean a lot. I'm a big Twitter fan and like talking to people who support me.

  Sheridan Smith

  Mean, Talking, People

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• After the enormous success of All About my Mother, all the awards and everything, I wanted to start a movie in exactly the same place that I used to be before. I wanted to show that all of the success had not changed my perception.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Mother, Perception, Used

  Interview with Jose Arroyo, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2002.

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• In fact, without a specification of a creature's goals, the very idea of intelligence is meaningless. A toadstool could be given a genius award for accomplishing with pinpoint precision and unerring reliability, the feat of sitting exactly where it is sitting. Nothing would prevent us from agreeing with the cognitive scientist Zenon Pylyshyn that rocks are smarter than cats because rocks have the sense to go away when you kick them.

  Steven Pinker

  Cat, Rocks, Ideas

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• This is a big surprise I don't agree with the concept of award ceremonies, but I'm prepared to make an exception for the ones I'm nominated for. The last time there was a naked man covered in gold paint in my house, it was me.

  Banksy

  Men, House, Gold

  "Banksy Request to Appear at the Oscars in Disguise Rejected" by Stuart Kemp, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 21, 2011.

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• Fatherhood, to me, isn't something you do for awards or acclaim. It's a privilege and a huge responsibility

  Dwyane Wade

  Responsibility, Fatherhood, Privilege

  Dwyane Wade (2012). “A Father First: How My Life Became Bigger Than Basketball”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• Awards are important for all directors because they improve your working conditions. You're only as good as your last film, so if you get prizes or large audiences, then you get more money for your next film.

  Michael Haneke

  Important, Directors, Lasts

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