I was very fortunate in all of my career in television to have a lot of things that received a lot of awards recognition.
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I've been very fortunate to have the opportunity to work on wonderful shows.
I've trained myself not to put too much emphasis on awards, only because I never got into acting to win an award.
Emmys are wonderful and I'm thrilled to death that I have mine. But they're representative of a specific achievement, where this sort of thing is representative of how you've grown in your own industry.
I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category.
I grew up loving TV so much. It was such an integral part of my youth, and I was completely an Emmy geek.
During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people's creations.
The biggest honor of my career was when I won R&B Artist of the Year back in the 1970s. I look at that as a major honor.
I've had the great fortune of working with incredible people on many shows.
When I was a kid, award shows were super-interesting for me. But when I started making music, it was kind of hard to watch because I believed in what I was doing and yet knew I didn't really have a shot.
I've been working every year since I started acting, and I got many awards before I won the Oscar for 'The Queen.'
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