Awards Quotes - Page 25

• Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book.

  Patti Smith

  Beautiful, Book, Acceptance

  "National Book Award for Patti Smith". National Book Award Acceptance speech, www.nytimes.com. November 17, 2010.

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• Who doesn’t want a Cy Young Award? What kid didn’t grow up wanting to be the best? I’m no different. I want to be the best. I’ve always wanted to be the best.

  R.A. Dickey

  Growing Up, Kids, Want

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• I was on the set of 'Braveheart' and my mate says to me, 'Do you think this film will be any good?' And I really meant this, too, I told him 'Let me put it this way - It won't win any awards.' Cut to: five Oscars.

  Peter Mullan

  Cutting, Winning, Thinking

  "NEDS’ Director Peter Mullan Almost Helmed ‘The Time Traveler’s Wife’ (Until He Botched The Pitch)". Interview with Christopher Bell, www.indiewire.com. April 27, 2011.

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• A lot of people like to live on laurels that happened 20 or 30 years ago, but it's nice to get awards. It's nice to be labeled and things like that, but I'm not sure everybody qualifies.

  Tim Conway

  Nice, Years, People

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• There was an austerely dignified award ceremony. By that I mean we had to buy our own drinks - in clear violation of the international journalists'code of truth, fairness and an open bar.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Mean, Bars

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.92, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• It's really more about the moment than it is the award. You know how trophies are, you don't really think about them after a while. It's more about the moment of being encouraged to keep doing what you're doing that keeps you going.

  Mark Hall

  Thinking, Trophies, Moments

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• The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms. This means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations.

  Aga Khan IV

  Mean, Trying, Quality

  Interview with Robert Ivy, www.architecturalrecord.com. February 1, 2002.

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• I was 21 years and 218 days old when I received the Academy Award for Best Actress. I had just stepped into an imaginary world that I'd seen at a distance for years.

  Marlee Matlin

  Distance, Years, World

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• I remember when I first won the Academy Award, and how much I loved it. I just wish there was an award around that you could really believe in again.

  Joanne Woodward

  Believe, Wish, Firsts

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

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• I did a short film called 'Disco' and won an award for Best Supporting Actor at an indie film festival, and that was nice. Hopefully there's lots more to come.

  Charlie Rowe

  Nice, Actors, Festivals

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• In pop music, the public usually see the results - the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours - but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won't make it.

  Bruno Mars

  Records, Spotlight, Chance

  "Bruno Mars: The complete Q&A interview". Interview with George Varga, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. June 9, 2011.

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• There's been a slow death in a way. On the positive side, there are films getting into the Academy Awards that wouldn't have, but on the negative side, financiers are now dominant and making all the decisions. I can't count the ways a director's vision is compromised.

  Lili Taylor

  Decision, Vision, Directors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When you're up for an award at the Oscars, try as you might, it's hard to concentrate on the show.

  Marlee Matlin

  Trying, Oscars, Might

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• Award shows, like the Grammys, were tough on us early in hip-hop, not even televising our categories or splitting them up on best male or female or any of that. We had to earn them.

  Queen Latifah

  Hip Hop, Males, Female

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• You can imagine what a trip this is for a Jewish girl from Great Neck-I get to win an Academy Award and meet Elizabeth Taylor at the same time.

  Julia Phillips

  Girl, Winning, Necks

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• I'm a very collaborative person, so that's not the way I work any way. Once VW got over the idea that I was going to blow their cars up, then we shot the thing really fast and it came out really good. Like I said, it won a bunch of awards and that really was the start of working in commercials.

  Paul W. S. Anderson

  Blow, Ideas, Car

  Source: collider.com

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• I've done plenty of daredeviling - from white-water rafting to bungee jumping. But I think the most fearless was hosting the Emmy Awards. It was overwhelming, and I definitely had to leave fear at the door.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Thinking, Jumping, Doors

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• Oh dear me, the Booker people don't like me. I don't care. I have been given an award for being taken not seriously, and I am very, very pleased about that.

  Terry Pratchett

  Taken, People, Care

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• It's much harder to act in a bad film than in a good one. A terrible script makes for very difficult acting. You can win an Academy Award for some of the easiest acting in your career, made possible by a brilliant script.

  Michael Caine

  Winning, Careers, Acting

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• It's sort of a meat market, the whole awards thing, and I don't think you can predict it anymore - who's going to like what you've done, if it's worthy or not. And hopefully, that's not why you make a film, because if you're distracted by that, or only striving for that, you don't do it justice.

  Emily Blunt

  Thinking, Justice, Meat

  The AMC Interview, www.amc.com. 2010.

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• We are seeing some challenges and some changes in American business, American enterprise, but the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award is a reminder of things that must never change: the passion for excellence, the drive to innovate, the hard work that goes with any successful enterprise.

  George W. Bush

  Hard Work, Passion, Successful

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• WikiLeaks is a service to the population. Assange should get an award for - presidential medal of honor.

  Noam Chomsky

  Presidential, Honor, Population

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• I've worked for everything I've ever got and it's worked out. Even if I was the Cy Young Award winner I still would not want to feel that sense of entitlement. I would still treat every game like it's my very first game and my very last game.

  R.A. Dickey

  Games, Want, Lasts

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• I'm a guy here to play football. I'm not here for photos or newspapers or TV shows or trophies or awards. I'm not into all that.

  Randy Moss

  Football, Tv Shows, Play

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• I don't think too much about awards.

  Delmon Young

  Thinking, Too Much

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