#award

I am also the product of a place called Paint Creek. Doesn't have a zip code. It's too small to be called a town along the rolling plains of Texas. We grew dryland cotton and wheat, and when I wasn't farming or attending Paint Creek Rural School, I was generally over at Troop 48 working on my Eagle Scout award. ↗

— Rick Perry

#also #am #attending #award #called

I've never been in this business for the recognition or the awards. I just want to do good work, grab a decent paycheck, and move onto the next job. ↗

— William Petersen

#been #business #decent #good #good work

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

#alive #award #between #book #called

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

— Jodi Picoult

#get #literary #schism #success #unwritten

I say have the night and give people the awards, but why do people want to watch people win awards? What are they getting out of it? I don't quite get it. Because they have awards all the time; there's awards for butchers, the best meat served, but they don't televise it. I don't know why they do it for films or TV programs. ↗

— Karl Pilkington

#because #best #butchers #films #get

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

— Karl Pilkington

#awards #certificates #get #i #many

It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards. ↗

— Robert Plant

#awards #cliche #crucial #drifting #i

It would be the ultimate dream for me to win an Academy Award, be in love and have kids. Then I would say, 'Life is great! I have done everything I wanted.' ↗

— Tara Reid

#academy award #award #done #dream #everything

My goal in life was to host the MTV Awards, because it's the awards show that Prince sang on, and that was the awards show that Eddie Murphy hosted and Arsenio hosted. ↗

— Chris Rock

#because #eddie #eddie murphy #goal #host

At The Body Shop we had always been measured by how many jobs we had created, and I got a major award from the Queen on that. ↗

— Anita Roddick

#award #been #body #body shop #created