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When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.

~Amartya Sen

Topics: About Also Award Bangladesh Basic Came Care Equity Gave Gender Health Health Care Immediate Including India Literacy Me Nobel Obsessions Old Opportunity Practical Something Specifically Way

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School was a waste of time for me. I was bored and left at 16. I started taking correspondence courses at college instead. I did incredibly well. I won an award for my grades.

~Amber Heard

Topics: Award Bored College Correspondence Courses Did Grades Incredibly Instead Left Me School Started Taking Time Waste Waste Of Time Well Won

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To join or not to join films was the biggest choice I had to make. I'd done two years of biogenetic engineering, was an economics graduate and a gold medalist. I had also been a Bharatanatyam dancer from age five, always won the best actress award in school. Finally, I decided to do things for my soul, chose to act.

~Amisha Patel

Topics: Act Actress Age Also Always Award Been Best Biggest Choice Chose Dancer Decided Done Economics Engineering Films Finally Five Gold Graduate Had Join Make My Soul School Soul Things Two Won Years

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You don't get time to meet your peers such as Dharmendra and Hema Malini very often. Award functions or other events are the only places you meet them, unless there is an emergency. Then we all come together.

~Amitabh Bachchan

Topics: Award Come Emergency Events Functions Get Meet Often Only Other Peers Places Them Then Time Together Unless Very You Your

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I'm not aiming for an Academy Award.

~Andie Macdowell

Topics: Academy Academy Award Aiming Award

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I think the thing's that perhaps sad really is that younger people haven't come in and I think it must have been absolutely fantastic to have worked in the 50's when you had all of the great Broadway composers and when West Side Story didn't win the Tony Award.

~Andrew Lloyd Webber

Topics: Absolutely Award Been Broadway Come Composers Fantastic Great Had Must People Perhaps Really Sad Side Story Thing Think Tony West West Side Win Worked You Younger Younger People I Think

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Award ceremonies are strange because you're sitting next to someone you've never met; you're celebrating with a total stranger.

~Aneurin Barnard

Topics: Award Because Celebrating Ceremonies Met Never Next Sitting Someone Strange Stranger Total You

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I was put under contract. A major studio. I got nominated for an Academy Award. Isn't that ridiculous? I mean, at the age of 18!

~Angela Lansbury

Topics: Academy Academy Award Age Award Contract Got Major Mean Nominated Put Ridiculous Studio

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In India I've been to all the award functions, but that was in Hindi; now it's in English so it's a much bigger scale.

~Anil Kapoor

Topics: Award Been Bigger English Functions Hindi India Much Now Scale

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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

Topics: Always Award Been Body Created Got Had How Jobs Major Many Measured Queen Shop

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