Award Quotes
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Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.
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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.
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I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award.
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The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game.
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Award shows, like the Grammys, were tough on us early in hip-hop, not even televising our categories or splitting them up on best male or female or any of that. We had to earn them.
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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.
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Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.
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I came to Mumbai in 2000 to do a hotel management course. Following this, I worked as a marketing executive with Hotel Sheraton in Muscat for a year. It was in 2004 that I participated in the Gladrags Mr. India contest and bagged the most popular model award. After that, I did few ramp shows and ads.
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.
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It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
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Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee.
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In 1930, I was at the top of my career. I won the Most Valuable Player award.
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I remember I got an ALMA award for an actor being on three shows simultaneously.
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It is always nice when you are honoured. The Lifetime award makes me feel old. I am only 55.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award.
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I'm an ensemble guy, I guess - that comes from the theater. If I ever won some kind of award someday, I imagine I'd try to be very gracious, but in the end, I just want to keep working. I don't see why that, if you just put your mind to it and keep sowing the right seeds, you can't keep doing the things you want to do.
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If you're not going to wear a tiara when you win a Newbery Award, when are you going to wear one?
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.
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The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they're handing it out.
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I handle screenings and award ceremonies really badly.
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It's bizarre to be given an award for being empathetic and kind, which is what we all should be.
