I try to keep my life low key, and I don't like going to parties unless they're thrown by a friend of mine, or they're to do with a project I'm in, or it's because I've been nominated for an award.
James McAvoy
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The narrative of, 'You won an award, so you're going to skyrocket' - it's very emotive language but not necessarily true. I've definitely got auditions I wouldn't have got before, but it's not like jobs get rained down on you.
Georgina Campbell
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Some of my contemporaries don't want to talk about the female problem because they feel like whenever they get a teaching position or an award, we are just being pinpointed, fitting into the model.
Du Yun
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I don't feel I have to acknowledge how I'm doing by an award.
Jimmy Smits
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'Weedflower' was already in the copyediting phase when I heard about the Newbery award, so it didn't really influence my writing of that book, but since then, I have become more aware of having an audience.
Cynthia Kadohata
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I was thrilled when this year's National Book Award for Young People's Literature went to Neal Schusterman's 'Challenger Deep.' This brilliant book takes you into the mind of a mentally ill teenager and deserves all the accolades it's received.
John Corey Whaley
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Entertainment, Hollywood, award shows - these are the things that really captivated me.
Billy Eichner
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The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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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
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For a lot of filmmakers, their first goal is to be successful and make some money. But once people start doing that, the real goal is then to win an Academy Award. Because when they do, they know that their obit is going to start out, 'Academy Award winner so-and-so.'
Robert Osborne
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I think what's going to happen with linear television is it's going to become more linear. It's going to become more about events and more about award shows, live sports - all those things that, really, you can't replicate.
Ted Sarandos
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Does getting an award make you happy? When you imagine yourself at the ceremony, you're always so eloquent and gracious. In reality, it's kind of awkward.
Ann Leckie
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White people are very good at acting like they're not racist. They deserve an Academy Award for that.
Paul Mooney
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I find there's almost no place to put an award that one's quite comfortable with.
Mercedes Ruehl
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To get the Nickelodeon award? That's like 'it.' It's one of the best. It's definitely where you want to be in your career.
Nelly
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I liked getting the best villain award. I thought that was funny.
Stephen Dorff
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Once the travel guide came out and won an award, once I got an MFA in creative writing, once I sold my next novel, I finally started telling people that I was a writer. I remember how special that year felt.
James Bernard Frost
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With the variety of fields within economics, broadly conceived and the increasing specialization of scholarly world, the award of a Nobel Memorial Prize honors not only the individual scholar but, implicitly, also a special field or a distinctive method.
Simon Kuznets
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I don't believe I was jinxed or hexed by winning an Academy Award in my first picture, 'West Side Story.'
George Chakiris
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You can wish to have an Oscar someday or some other award, but Life Achievement? You don't see yourself that way.
Rita Moreno
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I am honored to receive the James Beard award and so incredibly proud of my entire team at Eleven Madison Park.
Daniel Humm
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There are three things on my piano - my Best Villainess award, my Grammy, and my Rock N' Roll Hall Of Fame statue.
Michelle Phillips
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I'm not that ambitious chick. I'm not chasing a cover of a magazine or an award. I've just never been that girl. I've always been very content with whatever God blessed me with and he's already blessed me with a lot.
Yvette Nicole Brown
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One indicator of Ernest Lawrence's influence is the fact that I am the eighth member of his laboratory staff to receive the highest award that can come to a scientist - the Nobel Prize.
Luis Walter Alvarez
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