A Swedish newspaper reporter called and said, You've been awarded the Prize. I was quite sure it was a practical joke.
Joshua Lederberg
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It's almost uncanny to receive a prize named in honor of Bernard Malamud. I must have been in my early teens when 'The Magic Barrel' was published and I first read it.
Deborah Eisenberg
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The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands.
Philip Warren Anderson
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Anyone can win the Nobel Prize if the scientist works hard on his research subject.
Tim Hunt
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Of course, today at the Karolinska Institute, I am working with some top experts - even some Nobel prize winners. They have the latest news and I have the technique.
Lennart Nilsson
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There is a responsibility that goes with winning the Nobel Prize, and the responsibility is that if you have a forum, you should use it wisely.
James Heckman
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I very deeply appreciate the honour which you have conferred upon me in awarding the Nobel Prize for 1923 to me and Professor J.J.R. Macleod.
Frederick Banting
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I've never wanted just part of the package, part of the prize. I want it all!
Bill McCartney
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There's no pensions for old prize fighters.
Jake LaMotta
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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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One of my books, 'Rain Falling on My Face,' earned me the 39th Edogawa Ranpo prize. It's a very prestigious literary prize in Japan, mostly for mysteries and thrillers.
Natsuo Kirino
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When I was in my early 20s and still at uni, I won a short-story competition: £200 was the prize.
Ian Rankin
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The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize.
Robert Scheer
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I'm not sure whether I could win a Nobel Prize or not, but the Nobel Committee called me, and, 'You got the Nobel Prize.' So, I was so, so happy, and I was so surprised.
Shuji Nakamura
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I know I've said it before in interviews, but the idea that all actors have their eye on some sort of prize - it being an Oscar, or fame, or whatever - not all actors I know are like that.
Ruth Negga
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I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends.
Jose Saramago
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In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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The years since the Nobel Prize have been productive ones for me.
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I did not know that I can win the Nobel Prize.
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Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.
Ken Auletta
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It's always nice to be praised, and insofar as a prize is a form of praise, you're glad when you get it.
Howard Jacobson
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I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones.
Evan Hunter
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The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded for what one has done, but hopefully what one will do.
Betty Williams
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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
Katharine Hepburn
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