Academy Award Winner

Famous quotes containing the words academy, award and/or winner:

“...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The academy may lie, but literature tries to tell the truth.”
—Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)

“The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.”
—Robert Graves (1895–1985)

“The winner gives up his chance to be a good sport.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)