Awards Quotes (page 7)

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• friends
• friend
• learning

I am delighted to have had students, friends and colleagues in so many nations and to have learned so much of what I know from them. This Nobel Award honours them all. John Pople

• physics
• chemistry
• universe

I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943. John Pople

• time
• saying
• charming

I'm thrilled to be asked to host the Academy Awards for the second time because, as they say, the third time's a charm. Jon Stewart

• time
• category
• did

At awards time, The Exorcist was nominated in 11 categories, everybody but the janitor was up for an Oscar. There was no category for what I did. Mercedes McCambridge

• soccer
• tennis
• years

I have a TV Soap Boomerang award, and I always start my year with the Australian Open tennis! Tennis, soccer, you name it. Doug Davidson

• best
• thinking
• crazy

I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all. Hailee Steinfeld

• moments
• friend
• thinking

I had a friend who worked at a hospice, and he said people in their final moments don't discuss their successes, awards or what books they wrote or what they accomplished. They only talk about their loves and their regrets, and I think that's very telling. Brad Pitt

• kids
• eating
• my kids

My kids can't eat awards. Pitbull

• thinking
• shutting
• mouths

I won this award for keeping my mouth shut, so I think I'll do it again now. Jane Wyman

• mean
• bean
• means

I could have a roomful of awards and it wouldn't mean beans. Bobby Darin

• cute
• movie
• she

Cameron Diaz was so cute at the MTV Movie Awards when she pulled her skirt up and wiped her armpits. Pink

• swimming
• certificates
• gets

I've never won many awards, I didn't get certificates for swimming or anything. Karl Pilkington

• success
• getting
• successful

There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success. Jodi Picoult

• book
• manly
• people

If a woman writes about family and about the connections between people and what it means to be alive in this day and time, it's called women's fiction. And if a man does it, it's nominated for a National Book Award. What - you can't have a heart and a penis? That doesn't make sense. Jodi Picoult

• hard
• showing
• tried

When you're up for an award at the Oscars, try as you might, it's hard to concentrate on the show. Marlee Matlin