"I don't concern myself with award. I'd..." - Quote by Denzel Washington
I don't concern myself with award. I'd been to the party enough times to know it really didn't matter.
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“I'm used to seeing it, but it's weird having an Academy Award. You usually only see one of them on the TV show when they give them out, so it's kind of surreal to have one in your house.”
“Winning an Oscar is an honor, but, between you and me, it does not makes things easier.”
“Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war - for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.”
More on Perspective
“Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about.”
“The only one interested in hearing your sad story is . . . you; and even you wish you didn't have to relive it again!”
“It is comparatively a faint and reflected beauty that is admired, not an essential and intrinsic one. It is because the old are weak, feel their mortality, and think that they have measured the strength of man. They will not boast; they will be frank and humble. Well, let them have the few poor comforts they can keep. Humility is still a very human virtue. They look back on life, and so see not into the future. The prospect of the young is forward and unbounded, mingling the future with the present.”