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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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  • Benigno Aquino III As you may know, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, or MCC, awards grants only to countries which rule justly, promote economic freedom, and invest in their people.
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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  • Bill Murray Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.
    Bill Murray
    American actor, comedian, and writer (1950 - )
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  • Jesse Owens Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
    Jesse Owens
    American athlete (1913 - 1980)
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  • August Wilson Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your focus gets splintered. Once you put one thing in your calendar, that month is gone.
    August Wilson
    American playwright (1945 - 2005)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch Do awards change careers? Well, I haven't heard of many stories where that's the case. It's a fun excuse to meet colleagues and celebrate people who've done well that year in certain people's eyes, and it's nothing more than that.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Barry Sanders Happiness does not come from football awards. It's terrible to correlate happiness with football. Happiness comes from a good job, being able to feed your wife and kids. I don't dream football, I dream the American dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father.
    Barry Sanders
    American football player (1968 - )
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  • Alfred Day Hershey I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.
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  • Iain Banks I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!
    Iain Banks
    Scottish author (1954 - 2013)
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  • Bruce Vilanch It's the biggest party in the world, and you have to keep the whole thing percolating, which is difficult because a lot of awards most people don't care about.
    Bruce Vilanch
    American comedy writer, songwriter and actor (1948 - )
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  • Barbra Streisand Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Barrett Foa There's something so quirky and fun and nerdy about the Tony Awards... We're dorks being silly up there.
    Barrett Foa
    American bari-tenor singer, dancer, and actor (1977 - )
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  • Peter Ustinov To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
    Peter Ustinov
    British actor, writer, director (1921 - 2004)
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  • Mark Twain To reject awards is another way to accept them with more noise than normal.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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