Awards Quotes - Page 33

• One of the great awards from a chef's point of view are Michelin stars. The ultimate is three Michelin stars. For example, Gordon Ramsey has three Michelin stars. Having one Michelin star is a big deal, two is incredible and having three puts you in a bracket of maybe 30 chefs worldwide.

  Paul Rankin

  Stars, Two, Views

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• My first movie, I got nominated for a Canadian Oscar-for Meatballs. For MEATBALLS. And who am I up against? George C. Scott. So he wins the award and I stand up and go, 'That's it-let's get the hell outta here.'

  Bill Murray

  Winning, Acting, Oscars

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• I think I'd rather win, for example, a Writer's Guild award than almost anything on earth. And the few nominations I've had with the guild, and the few awards I've had, represented to me a far more legitimate concrete achievement than anything.

  Rod Serling

  Thinking, Winning, Achievement

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• If a movie is nominated for, say, an Academy award, that movie will instantly become popular in Japan. There's always been a bit of a complex the Japanese have about being taken seriously in the West.

  Hirokazu Koreeda

  Taken, Japan, West

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The fact remains that books that really put gay people in the center, and especially books that do so in a way that is sexually explicit, tend not to get a great deal of mainstream attention: they don't tend to sell well, and they don't tend to win major awards. This makes the occasional exception, like Alan Hollinghurst, all the more remarkable.

  Garth Greenwell

  Book, Gay, Winning

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Marketing is not about your agency winning awards. It's about your organization winning business.

  David Meerman Scott

  Inspirational, Winning, Agency

  David Meerman Scott (2015). “The New Rules of Marketing and PR: How to Use Social Media, Online Video, Mobile Applications, Blogs, News Releases, and Viral Marketing to Reach Buyers Directly”, p.37, John Wiley & Sons

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• I have heard of bloggers who don't accept awards. I accept them with open arms...why not? When we spread the love and gratitude around, we have more love and gratitude to give.

  Katherine Jenkins

  Gratitude, Positivity, Giving

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• Anytime you get an award as a coach, you've got to be the ultimate fool to think it wasn't your assistant coaches and all the players responsible for the award.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Player, Thinking

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• Larry Carlton is an incredibly versatile guitarist who has been a major force for guitar for many years. He is easily recognizable - all you have to do is hear him once and from that point on you'll be a fan, just like me. It gives me great pleasure to extend congratulations to Larry on his 2011 George Benson Lifetime Achievement Award. Congratulations !

  George Benson

  Congratulations, Years, Guitar

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• If Michelle Pfeiffer gave Mel Gibson a vial of blood to wear around his neck in a movie you'd think it was terribly romantic, everyone would cry and they'd win awards. But in real life if someone does that they'd be considered weird.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Movie, Real, Winning

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• The fans get to see you, and you can do great by your record if you have a great performance or a great night there. That's all part of the business. But at their core, awards shows are not really a sincere thing. For a lot of years, the artists had to pay to play their own set.

  Jay-Z

  Artist, Night, Years

  Interview With Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 11, 2010.

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• This is an award I couldn't have won on my own. I can't thank these guys enough. These are my guys, these are my brothers.

  Kobe Bryant

  Basketball, Brother, Guy

  "Kobe is MVP for 1st time". www.sfgate.com. May 7, 2008.

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• I didn't expect this award [the 2008 MVP] would come to me. I'm surprised. I've played pretty well in other seasons. Our team hasn't been as good. Things just fell into place.

  Kobe Bryant

  Basketball, Team, Mvp

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• She drove me to ballet class...and she took me to every audition. She'd be proud of me if I was still sitting in that seat or if I was watching from home. She believes in me and that's why this [award] is for her. She's a wonderful mother.

  Elisabeth Moss

  Inspiring, Mom, Mother

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• I don't have role models or watch much TV. I go to awards ceremonies but often I don't even know who the people are. I think that's good, because then you don't have preconceived ideas about them.

  Christopher Parker

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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• I've never really topped myself, because awards in themselves really don't reflect major accomplishment. It's kind of a strange, backslapping ritual that we go through in this town where you get awards for almost everything. For surviving the day you're going to get awards.

  Rod Serling

  Accomplishment, Towns, Strange

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• It's the only time that I'm ever nervous on stage, is when we're doing live TV. Especially an awards show, because I know you can't fix it.

  Jason Aldean

  Tvs, Nervous, Stage

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• Here's the thing - I mean, I don't act for statues. I really don't. The great thing about winning an award is that it creates opportunities.

  Kevin Bacon

  Mean, Winning, Opportunity

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• I'm not trying to win an award for being the best vegetarian, just want to be healthy. Take a salt bath. Do things that my parents were never able to do. I'm blessed to do anything I want so I decide to take the best care of my body and my family in the same way. Holistically. Vitally.

  Erykah Badu

  Blessed, Winning, Parent

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 8, 2013.

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• I'm not an awards-driven person in anything. Anytime you do get caught up in that, you usually end up getting whacked.

  Alec Baldwin

  Driven, Ends, Caught

  "What Rocks Alec's World?". Interview with Choire Sicha, articles.latimes.com. August 6, 2008.

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• The great thing with film is that it doesn't have an ego. It's just a film. Everybody that makes them has an ego, and the problem with awards and stuff like that is that it always affects the egos, and everyone gets stained by it in some way. And that can be fine and very innocent, but it can be horrible as well.

  Danny Boyle

  Ego, Stuff, Way

  Interview with Chris Tilly, www.ign.com. January 7, 2009.

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• The hoopla with all the award season is kind of mind-boggling. It kind of puts you on your heels.

  Jeff Bridges

  Mind, Kind, Heels

  "Actor Jeff Bridges". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. January 10, 2011.

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• When you get performance slots for award shows - that's a big deal for me.

  Luke Bryan

  Bigs, Shows, Deals

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• I have awards right now that I do not remember walking on stage to get.

  Kenny Rogers

  Remember, Stage, Walking

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• I have been blessed to win a number of awards and be involved in numerous historical baseball moments over my 20-year career with the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres.

  Steve Garvey

  Baseball, Blessed, Winning

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