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• You can get on with your job. I’m going to get on with mine. And mine is to deliver for the people of Northern Ireland, that’s what they expect from me and I’m not going to be deflected by interesting academic or media speculation or attempts to take the whole debate back.

  Peter Hain

  Topics in Job

  Tags in Academy

• I’m awkward at these things. Just being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Karate Kid was a real surprise and I was a little uncomfortable.

  Pat Morita

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Academy, Nominal

• The Academy Awards was an amazing night. I know I kind of lost my mind a little bit. I apologize for that. That night went so fast; I can’t remember what I said or what happened.

  Cuba Gooding Jr.

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happened, Academy, Remember

• 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

  Topics in Dream, Life, Love

  Tags in dream, Academy

• There is a strange sort of reasoning in Hollywood that musicals are less worthy of Academy consideration than dramas. It’s a form of snobbism, the same sort that perpetuates the idea that drama is more deserving of Awards than comedy.

  Gene Kelly

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hollywood, Musical, Academy

• A lot of the ideas or even individual technologies behind Khan Academy are not novel.

  Salman Khan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Behind, Academy

• I get cassettes near Academy Award time of every movie that’s made that thinks it has some kind of chance for a nomination – that’s when I watch my movies.

  William Peter Blatty

  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Academy, Chance

• The Academy is paranoid about its image.

  Roger Ebert

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Image, Academy

• Just because you’ve made a couple movies, you’ve done some good movies, you’ve been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody’s entitled. It’s a business. If they don’t see it, I can think they’re wrong, but I’m not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.

  Edward Norton

  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Couple, Academy, Award

• There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.

  Charles Babbage

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Persons, Purpose, Academy

• I went to the Academy and studied with Stuck who was then a big man. But didn’t interest me. I didn’t know that before me there was Kandinsky and Klee who had also studied with Stuck. He had a good name at that time.

  Josef Albers

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Academy, Stuck, Interest

• Things with my dad were pretty good until I won an Academy Award. He was really loving to me until I got more attention than he did. Then he hated me.

  Tatum O'Neal

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Academy, Hated

• So I think we got together as the Academy to give ourselves that sort of responsibility and to play well.

  Neville Marriner

  Tags in Academy, Sort

• 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

  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Academy