Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win. — William Shatner Copy Share Image
“If I wrote, 'After delivering the acceptance speech, the candidate fainted,' you would know I was talking about a woman. Men do… — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
God bless that potential that we all have for making anything possible if we think we deserve it. I deserve this. — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
I think at some point every actor has practiced their acceptance speech while they're having a shower. It's fun. — Jared Harris Copy Share Image
When they called my name, I had this feeling I could hear half of America going, 'Oh no. Come on... Her, again?'… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
“We know every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering… - Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech, 1986” — Edward Iwata Copy Share Image
You give hundreds, probably thousands of speeches in this business, but you only get one chance to make an acceptance speech at… — Jim Boeheim Copy Share Image
I remember watching the ACMs growing up. I would start on the couch and when the winner won the category, I had… — Jimmie Allen Copy Share Image
“I won an Oscar. I Won it in a raffle. It’s a replica, but I still gave a teary-eyed acceptance speech. I… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Ladies and Gentlemen, I stand before you now because I never stopped dawdling like an eight-year-old on a spring morning on his… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I, uh...I have a television, so I'm going to spend some time here to tell you some things. [To orchestra conductor:] And,… — Julia Roberts Copy Share Image
Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
This Thursday, Barack Obama is gonna give his acceptance speech, and reportedly it's going to include performances by Bon Jovi and Bruce… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Please, no matter how we advance technologically , please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
People are falling all over themselves to send you free shoes and free cufflinks and colonic irrigations for two. Nobody ever offers… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
There's another totally fraudulent recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Al Gore hadn't done anything but make a movie that itself was… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Senator Kennedy from Massachusetts had won in the closest presidential election since 1916. Hatless and handsome, he had given people faith in… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit—for gallantry in defeat, for… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Children's books: Every time you find the right, the necessary, book for a child - a book about sadness overcome, unfairness battled,… — Katherine Applegate Copy Share Image
The man that I named the Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“I believe that children in this country need a more robust literary diet than they are getting. …It does not hurt them… — Barbara Cooney Copy Share Image
“Below is Pixar’s storytelling process overlayed on Malala’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech: Once there was a little girl who lived in a… — Carmine Gallo Copy Share Image
“If there is a hard, high wall and an egg that breaks against it, no matter how right the wall or how… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Give the Audience Something to Cheer For Austin Madison is an animator and story artist for such Pixar movies as Ratatouille, WALL-E,… — Carmine Gallo Copy Share Image
“(Golden Globe acceptance speech in the style of Jane Austen's letters ): "Four A.M. Having just returned from an evening at the… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
“On his journey home from delivering his acceptance speech in Sweden the following summer, Einstein stopped in Copenhagen to see Bohr, who… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“In September 1957 the Ethics Committee of the AFL-CIO charged that Dave Beck and Jimmy Hoffa had used “their official union positions… — Charles Brandt Copy Share Image
This sounds crazy, but my goal is to be nominated for an Oscar. I was the kid who was practicing my acceptance… — Ashley Benson Copy Share Image
I said in my acceptance speech that I hope that readers remember this not as the year I won the Booker, but… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“William Wirt, first presidential candidate of the Anti-Masonic party was, in fact, a Freemason. He even defended the order in his acceptance… — Steven L. Harrison Copy Share Image
If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
On many young actors that don't give their parents proper credit: I'm still waiting for some actor to win, say, an Oscar...… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
I find myself having rehearsal chats, in my head, for conversations I need to have. Sometimes they are arguments, things I need… — Michael Lomenda Copy Share Image
I learned to read at the age of five, in Brother Justiniano’s class at the De la Salle Academy in Cochabamba, Bolivia.… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
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