#award

If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit Awards. ↗

— Annie Proulx

#academy awards #attention #awards #based #independent

If you stick around long enough, people start referring to you as a survivor. Suddenly I found myself on the receiving end of several prestigious awards. ↗

— Martha Reeves

#awards #end #enough #found #i

Everybody says how hard comedy is, but, when it comes time to honor things, whether it's on a weekly critical basis or whether it's award time, at that time of the year, comedy is the poor, dumb child of dramatic work. ↗

— Ivan Reitman

#basis #child #comedy #comes #critical

I believe we can do more in making the President's vision for space exploration a reality by awarding cash prizes to encourage greater participation of the private sector in the national space program. ↗

— Dana Rohrabacher

#believe #cash #encourage #exploration #greater

I have two Golden Boot awards at home. It would be nice to win another, but I wouldn't mind it if I didn't. ↗

— Cristiano Ronaldo

#awards #be nice #boot #golden #home

Just look at all the awards shows now. It has turned into a catwalk. You have to be wearing a certain designer, a certain dress, and everyone's critiquing. ↗

— Portia de Rossi

#certain #designer #dress #everyone #into

I find there's almost no place to put an award that one's quite comfortable with. ↗

— Mercedes Ruehl

#award #comfortable #find #i #place

The three of us just try put our heads down and stay creative. The awards truly are just cake. It's one of those things that you never expect, but getting the head nod from either the fans or your peers, that's the ultimate compliment. ↗

— Hillary Scott

#cake #compliment #creative #down #either

The Academy Awards ceremony is designed to be without irony, but Chris Rock supplied it anyway with filmed movie-theater interviews with black men and women who had never heard of the movies nominated for Best Picture. ↗

— Suzanne Fields

#academy awards #anyway #awards #best #best picture

Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism. ↗

— William Gilmore Simms

#award #blame #criticism #discriminate #duties