The 50th Annual Academy Awards (1978 TV Special)
Paddy Chayefsky: Self - Presenter
Quotes
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Paddy Chayefsky : Before I get on to the writing awards, there's a little matter I'd like to tidy up, at least if I expect to live with myself tomorrow morning. I would like to say -- personal opinion, of course -- that I'm sick and tired of people exploiting the occasion of the Academy Awards...
[applause]
Paddy Chayefsky : ...for the propagation of their own personal political propaganda.
[applause]
Paddy Chayefsky : I would like to suggest to Miss Redgrave that her winning an Academy Award is not a pivotal moment in history, does not require a proclamation, and a simple "thank you" would have sufficed.
