Awards Quotes - Page 28

• I have a box of awards in the closet. I think it is weird to put them out. I might if I had an Emmy or Oscar, but I don't.

  Margaret Cho

  Thinking, Oscars, Might

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• I don't look for boyfriends, I don't really scour the awards shows for who I'm going to date, but I think love happens when you're not looking for it, and when it happens, I'm not going to be the one to overthink it.

  Taylor Swift

  Thinking, Looks, Shows

  "Country singer Taylor Swift takes 'Fearless' approach to stardom". Interview with Nekesa Mumbi Moody, www.metro.us. May 28, 2009.

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• As a major country music fan, the CMA awards are my favorite!

  Megan Alexander

  Country, Fans, My Favorite

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Thinking, Two, Hype

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• I won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American.

  Michael Caine

  House, Cider, Academy

  "Michael Caine: 'I Spent My Life Doing Something That I Love'". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel and Melissa Block, peconicpublicbroadcasting.org. May 30, 2013.

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• Still, I kept writing. I had no guarantee that I would someday win awards for writing. Heavens, the only person during that time who seemed to think I could write something worth publishing was my loyal husband. But I always remembered the professor from graduate school who urged me to write and who recommended me for that first writing assignment in 1964. When I protested to Sara Little that I didn't want to add another mediocre writer to the world, she gently reminded me that if I didn't dare mediocrity, I would never write anything at all.

  Katherine Paterson

  Husband, Writing, School

  Katherine Paterson (2001). “The Invisible Child: On Reading and Writing Books for Children”, Dutton Juvenile

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• Those who promote the politically correct theory are favored with billions from government grants and neo-Marxist environmentalist largesse, and official recognition and award. Faked and tampered data and evidence has arisen in favor of the politically correct theory. Is not man-caused, catastrophic global warming now the only theory allowed to be taught in the West?

  Peter Ferrara

  Men, Data, Favors

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• I had a friend who worked at a hospice, and he said people in their final moments don't discuss their successes, awards or what books they wrote or what they accomplished. They only talk about their loves and their regrets, and I think that's very telling.

  Brad Pitt

  Success, Regret, Book

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• I got my first lifetime achievement award years ago, and I was very excited, but then I got a sense of: Well, can one get a second lifetime award?

  Michael Palin

  Years, Achievement, Firsts

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• An award does not change the quality of a book.

  Chris Van Allsburg

  Change, Book, Quality

  Caldecott Medal acceptance speech for The Polar Express, polarexpress.com. 1986.

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• It's what I do. I don't deserve any awards for this, it's just music. It's just writing songs. You sit down, you write a song, you record it. You tour and play the songs live, dress them up a bit differently, or dress them down.

  Elvis Costello

  Song, Writing, Play

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• I don't bask in the awards I've won, read my bank statements, I refuse. To me, that's how you start losing the hunger.

  Questlove

  Losing, Hunger, Refuse

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• MTV Awards are fun - it's MTV! You never know what's going to happen. It's a slice of pop culture in the moment, and you can't take it too seriously.

  Megan Alexander

  Fun, Mtv, Culture

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• I agree to the fight. The award, which is getting for these hardships, it is exorbitantly large. It is the joy of life.

  Jerzy Kukuczka

  Fighting, Joy, Hardship

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• Do you think that Gwendolyn Brooks would give an award to someone who hated Black women, the lie that was circulated throughout New York and reached all the way down to Martinique where I was a guest Professor? The lie was circulated by people who don't read my books.

  Ishmael Reed

  New York, Lying, Book

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• It's always made me feel odd when I'd get a Dove Award for an instrumental album that has nothing to do with gospel. When I think of gospel music, I think of spreading the Good News with words. But maybe it's just because I was heralded once upon a time as one of theirs. The category of instrumental music seems sort of important to the big picture, but I felt a little embarrassed at the same time.

  Phil Keaggy

  Thinking, Once Upon A Time, Important

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• You don't make movies to win awards. You make movies because you want people to see them.

  Robin Tunney

  Winning, People, Want

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• Getting to the playoffs is more important than winning an award.

  Corey Perry

  Winning, Important, Playoffs

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• I think life awards you if have your priorities in the right place.

  Max Bemis

  Thinking, Priorities, Right Place

  Source: substreammagazine.com

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• I've never won an award for anything, and I think it's weird. I mean, that's really cool but it's strange to think you could get an award for acting. I always thought that was strange.

  Bobby Cannavale

  Mean, Thinking, Acting

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• Titles or awards are not the mark of your success. They are the beginning of a life-long sadhana.

  Shreya Ghoshal

  Long, Titles, Mark

  "Queen of charts". Interview with Chitra Swaminathan, www.thehindu.com. September 6, 2013.

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• I have to say that my biggest Award is performing in front of my fans. Their love is my award.

  Shreya Ghoshal

  Love Is, Fans, Performing

  "Chai with Manju talks to Shreya Ghoshal about her life and music". “Chai with Manju” with Dr. Manju Sheth, indianewengland.com. Ocotber 1, 2013.

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• I couldn't speak Japanese very well, passport regulations were changing, I felt British and my future was in Britain. And it would also make me eligible for literary awards. But I still think I'm regarded as one of their own in Japan.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Thinking, Japan, Literature

  "Living memories" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2005.

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• The prince who relies upon their words, without having otherwise provided for his security, is ruined; for friendships that are won by awards, and not by greatness and nobility of soul, although deserved, yet are not real, and cannot be depended upon in time of adversity.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Time, Real, Adversity

  "The Prince". Book by Niccolo Machiavelli, 1513.

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• I don't want awards, I want my daughter. I wouldn't exchange a single eyelash of my daughter for the whole world.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Daughter, Eyelashes, World

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