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I won and I get to scream and jump a little. But I got to go back to work tomorrow. — Benicio Del Toro 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
Most of all, I want to thank my father, up there, the man who when I said I wanted to be an… — Robin Williams 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
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
I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
This moment is so much bigger than me. It's for every nameless, faceless woman of colour that now has a chance because… — Halle Berry 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
Arnold Schwarzenegger is gonna be the new governor of California. During his acceptance speech Arnold said 'I will not let you down.'… — Conan O'Brien 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
“I didn't plan it; in a way, it seems, it planned me. I won, and I was making my acceptance speech, and… — Richard Kramer Copy Share Image
During her Oscar acceptance speech, Patricia Arquette called for equal pay for women. Then Oprah stood up and said, 'She's right, I… — Conan O'Brien 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
Having been heavily involved in the planning of a couple of G.O.P. conventions, my view is, we should just scrap 'em. Cancel… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
“As was the case for Nobel's own invention of dynamite, the uses that are made of increased knowledge can serve both beneficial… — Nicolaas Bloembergen 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
A nap is not to be confused with sleeping. We sleep to recharge our bodies. We nap to care for our souls.… — Sarah Ban Breathnach 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
“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
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
“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
“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
“Someone’s gotta determine whether you guys are destined for superstardom,” I said, my mind catching up somewhat. A light bulb popped over… — Anne Malcom 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
“(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
“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
“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
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
Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than… — Patti Smith 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
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