At awards time, The Exorcist was nominated in 11 categories, everybody but the janitor was up for an Oscar. There was no category for what I did.
In my career, I've had people talking about different things many times, but then not get nominated.
The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize.
[Comedian Jerry Seinfeld was nominated for a Grammy for his spoken-word children's album] Halloween. . . Don't Give Up on Me.
It hasn't been hard getting nominated, but winning it is another thing. The competition is tough.
Beauty and the Beast became the first animated feature ever nominated for best picture.
My acting is still being recognized for the fact that I wasn't nominated.
To get nominated by the Republican Party you've got to be pretty reactionary, really.
You have had presidential candidates over the last 30 years who would have had a very hard time getting nominated under the old system. One example is John Kennedy.
During the Obama years, the Republicans have done an unprecedented amount of stonewalling on cabinet-and-below appointees. I would also argue that their war on judicial nominees has been way beyond what went before. Really, if the president nominated God to serve on the D. C. Court of Appeals, Mitch McConnell would threaten a filibuster.
It's a great way to start the day, hearing you've been nominated for an Emmy. It's just thrilling.
I played against him (Wilkins) in college. Getting nominated with him, that's pretty cool.
If nominated, I won't run; If elected, I won't serve.
If Jeff Sessions had been an editor of something like "Breitbart", Ronald Reagan wouldn`t have even nominated him.
Nobody did a campaign for me. I was nominated out of the blue and won out of the blue. So that was it.
She [Hillary Clinton] says I know that this is the first time that one of our two major parties has ever nominated a woman, and that takes some getting used to even for me. And I think that she has to somehow figure out a way to talk about it. She doesn't like being a symbol, but in many ways, that's what tonight is about.
To mark the hundredth anniversary of the Titanic, the Republicans have nominated Mitt Romney.
The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.
This sounds crazy, but my goal is to be nominated for an Oscar. I was the kid who was practicing my acceptance speech when I was ten.
It's better to be nominated for awards than not to be nominated for them, but of course to some degree such awards [National Book Award] are always subjective.
