#won

There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

#academy award #award #best #great #haven

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. ↗

— Mark Twain

#make #sense #stranger #than #truth

It was a tough year for me, '89, losing two Slam finals and losing another five finals. It wasn't until I won the Masters, or what's now called the ATP Finals, that things changed again. Suddenly I won seven tournaments in 1990 and became No. 1. ↗

— Stefan Edberg

#another #became #called #changed #finals

I won $100,000 in Vegas, which buys furniture for my beach house. That takes nerves. You can't think if I'm wrong I'll blow $30,000. ↗

— Jennifer Tilly

#blow #buys #furniture #house #i

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly. ↗

— Alice Walker

#fly #freedom #someone #such #want

I turned down the first script offered to me, and the second. I lay on my back one day under an umbrella, in the garden, reading the third, and wondered why I had turned down the first. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

#day #down #first #garden #had

I won't play a teenager. ↗

— Scott Thompson

#play #teenager #won

If an American audience is given a serious musical theater piece that is well produced, dramatically gripping and wonderfully acted, they'll respond to it. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#american #american audience #audience #dramatically #given

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#continuing #controlled #defeat #face #humanity

It's quite funny in that I once won Rear of the Year at my school! I was about 17 in the sixth form and we used to have an end of year celebration and give out different awards. I even got a little trophy! ↗

— Jessica Ennis

#awards #celebration #different #end #even