Quotes About Achievement

Awards season is big for me - I love following all the films and who might be nominated.

Winning is a different thing, but even being nominated for an award like Filmfare is an honour.

I've been invited to the Grammys with other friends who were nominated. I'm like, 'Naw, I'm not gonna go until it's my time.' And who knew it was gonna be, like, the next year? It's crazy.

Just to be nominated, and especially as a new artist and a female artist, is a feat. Winning anything is just a bonus.

I want to be nominated for Grammys.

Getting a Grammy nomination for 'Brooklyn' meant a lot, especially because, as an album, it was one that was very personal to me but also one that I self-produced and had gone outside the label.

I got a nomination for director, which means the world to me; it's just the most exciting thing for me and my family. You do the good hard work, and the rest of it is something you shouldn't get too caught up in, but when it happens - boy! I respect it.

I think it's my nature to - every time I hear about an award or a nomination, it makes me realize how much I must've been losing before, because I was not aware that every major city had these critics' awards.

Inarritu's own nomination for Best Director for 'Babel' was the first such honor for a Mexican director.

The Emmy nomination did a world of good for my confidence.

My first Grammy nomination? I was 24 - I was nominated for best new artist of the year.

The Ballon d'Or nomination is a good achievement for Pogba.

I've dreamed a lot of things and a lot of them have come true. The Grammy nomination was the last thing on my list before I had to write a new one. So I'm working on a new one.

I feel like I'm on the inside for the first time. Inside the castle. I have an Emmy nomination!

To tell you the truth, the nomination for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame totally surprised me. I had no idea that was coming. I know a lot of people like to say it's enough just to be nominated. But I've been nominated for so many things, I'd like to get this one. I think it's a long shot, considering I never had a No. 1 rock n' roll record.

A Ballon d'Or nomination is one of the best things you can achieve as a player but I want to achieve more and more.

I was an Emmy nominee and an Emmy snub.

I know what the Giller nominee effect is, but we'll see what the next level is.

But I usually read non-fiction; I love Richard Branson books.

Since the moment I joined with Nightwish, I have been working non-stop.

For a good 10 to 12 years, I was working non-stop and I wasn't really enjoying my success.

The chips fall into place, but the educational experience I had at Cal, second to none.

I knew Secrets and Lies was a great film, but I didn't expect it to get the attention it did because none of his other films had and I thought they were just as good.

There were lots of smart black people at Harvard before Barack Obama, but none of them ever got to head up the law review. There has been a history of discrimination.