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"A new kind of award has been added -- the deathbed award. It is not an award of any kind. Either the recipient has not acted at all, or was not nominated, or did not win the award the last few times around. It is intended to relieve the guilty conscience of the Academy members and save face in front of the public. The Academy has the horrible taste to have a star, choking with emotion, present this deathbed award so that there can be no doubt in anybody's mind why the award is so hurriedly given. Lucky is the actor who is too sick to watch the proceedings on television."
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Marlene Dietrich
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"Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper."
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Gerald Early
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"The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity."
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Robert Graves
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"Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else."
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Joseph Heller
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"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."
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John Lennon
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"The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction."
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Mark Twain
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"To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal."
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Peter Ustinov
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