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"When anybody gives you an award, it could be wrong. You’ve just got to bear that it mind and go ahead and enjoy it. Like Morgan says, it’s a pat on the back, so great you’ll take it and then move on."
"This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid."
"The last thing I want is to walk into my house after a long day and see all the Grammys and awards. It would make me feel weird."
"I worked three and then six hours a day in my studio with strict discipline and emotion. I obtained awards usually granted to other foreigners during the end-of-year admission tests."
"I couldn't stop looking at the award when I received it. It was as if my whole career flashed in front of me, from beginning to the moment I was handed the Golden Globe."
"When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award."
"Also, I've already won all the awards."
"I wouldn't even hold my kids sometimes because I didn't want them to spit up on me when I was dressed for an awards show."
"The things you get fired for when you’re young are the same things that you get lifetime achievement awards for when you’re old."
"The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women."
"The fans get to see you, and you can do great by your record if you have a great performance or a great night there. That's all part of the business. But at their core, awards shows are not really a sincere thing. For a lot of years, the artists had to pay to play their own set."
"When you go to awards shows these days, you can walk through a room and they give you everything for free: sunglasses, guitars, stuff for the wife."
"You are recognized by your bat. If you are the best hitting shortstop out there, that's how you win a Gold Glove. That's the way it is. It shouldn't be-it's a defensive award."
"For top executives to award themselves these kinds of compensation packages in the midst of this economic crisis isn't just bad taste, it's bad strategy, and I will not tolerate it as president."
"Hwang Jung-eun is one of the brightest stars of the new South Korean generation - she's Han Kang's favourite, and the novel we're publishing scooped the prestigious Bookseller's Award, for critically-acclaimed fiction that also has a wide popular appeal. She stands out for her focus on social minorities - her protagonists are slum inhabitants, trans women, orphans - and for the way she melds this hard-edged social critique with obliquely fantastical elements and offbeat dialogue."
"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."
"The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial."
"Awards mean nothing to comedians. What matters is the audience, how you're doing - artistically, for the most part - at that moment."
"If I don't win, the award show loses credibility."
"The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they're handing it out."
