Quotes with award

  • An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it.

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  • Bill Murray 'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award.
    Bill Murray
    American actor, comedian, and writer (1950 - )
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  • Alejandro Amenabar An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it.
    Alejandro Amenabar
    Spanish-Chilean film director, screenwriter and composer (1972 - )
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  • Anita Roddick 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
    British businesswoman and human rights activist (1942 - 2007)
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  • Boris Pasternak Considering the meaning this award has been given in the society to which I belong, I must reject this undeserved prize which has been presented to me. Please do not receive my voluntary rejection with displeasure.
    Telegram naar Nobelcomite (29-10-1958)
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Busta Rhymes For me the best thing about winning an award is when the people cheer for your win. When you can see that the people are really happy that you are winning something, that's the most reward thing in the world.
    Busta Rhymes
    American rapper, musician, record producer and actor (1972 - )
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  • Jack Benny I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis, and I don't deserve that, either.
    Jack Benny
    American comedian, vaudevillian and actor (1894 - 1974)
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  • Beyonce Knowles I'm over being a pop star. I don't wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic. And I feel like I've accomplished a lot. I feel like I'm highly respected, which is more important than any award or any amount of records. And I feel like there comes a point when being a pop star is not enough.
    Beyonce Knowles
    American singer and actress (1981 - )
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  • Barry Levinson I'm thinking, this is Robert Redford. You know, he's won an Academy Award, he's talking to me about directing a movie he's in. So you just think that it's Hollywood stuff or whatever.
    Barry Levinson
    American filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor (1942 - )
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  • Barrett Foa Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
    Barrett Foa
    American bari-tenor singer, dancer, and actor (1977 - )
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  • William Gilmore Simms Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism.
    William Gilmore Simms
    American poet, novelist and historian (1806 - 1870)
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  • Robert Graves The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.
    Robert Graves
    English poet, historical novelist, critic and classicist (1895 - 1985)
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  • Bob Cousy The MVP award was very satisfying in terms of personal accomplishments, but the championship was the most important thing of all.
    Bob Cousy
    American basketball player (1928 - )
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  • Alfred Hitchcock This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • Betty Williams When I received the news of the Nobel Peace Award, I could not believe it. I told my father, 'I think they have the wrong name, Dad. Please, can you talk to this man on the phone? I'm busy cooking!'
    Betty Williams
    Irish activist (1943 - 2020)
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  • Amartya Sen When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.
    Amartya Sen
    Indian economist and philospher
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