Awards Quotes - Page 3

• The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women.

  Marguerite Young

  Money, Association, Firsts

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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 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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• I could have a roomful of awards and it wouldn't mean beans

  Bobby Darin

  Mean, Beans

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• Things with my dad were pretty good until I won an Academy Award. He was really loving to me until I got more attention than he did. Then he hated me.

  Tatum O'Neal

  Dad, Attention, Hated

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• At awards time, The Exorcist was nominated in 11 categories, everybody but the janitor was up for an Oscar. There was no category for what I did.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Oscars, Exorcist, Categories

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• Award trophies, as opposed to letting the players define and claim their own. Ultimately, pay them to play so that their activity not only resembles work but is work.

  John Thorn

  Player, Pay, Trophies

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• I am delighted to have had students, friends and colleagues in so many nations and to have learned so much of what I know from them. This Nobel Award honours them all.

  John Pople

  Students, Nobel, Colleagues

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• I'd say my happiest moment as an actress came when I learned I'd won the Look Magazine Best Supporting Actress Award for 1956 in The Killing.

  Marie Windsor

  Looks, Magazines, Actresses

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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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• The MVP award was very satisfying in terms of personal accomplishments, but the championship was the most important thing of all.

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Mvp, Accomplishment

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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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• The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure

  Patty Duke

  Rights, Treasure, Eleanor

  Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.295, Bantam

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• At The Body Shop we had always been measured by how many jobs we had created, and I got a major award from the Queen on that.

  Anita Roddick

  Jobs, Queens, Body

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• Awards don't really mean much.

  Uta Hagen

  Mean, Really Mean

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• My awards are lovely. I love to show them of.

  Doris Roberts

  Lovely, Shows

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• My new house is going to have wall-to-wall awards!

  Patsy Cline

  Wall, House

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

  Stephen Dorff

  Villain

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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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• If you're at an award ceremony, you're against your mates.

  Imelda Staunton

  Award Ceremonies, Mates, Ceremony

  "'I'm not in that league'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2004.

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• Because Olivia Newton-John wasn't from Nashville, they didn't like her winning our awards. I've got no complaints.

  Loretta Lynn

  Winning, Nashville, Olivia

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• Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed.

  Neil Gaiman

  Funny, Writing, Fate

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• Awards shows are my greatest inducement to get back into shape.

  Jane Kaczmarek

  Shapes, Shows, Get Back

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• You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award.

  John Corigliano

  Winning, Thinking, Composer

  "The Gospel According To John Corigliano". Interview with Frank J. Oteri, www.newmusicbox.org. February 1, 2005.

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• Also, I've already won all the awards.

  Neil Gaiman

  Literature, Already Won

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