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• People discover you at festivals. They come to see Coldplay or whoever, and then wander over and catch your act. Festivals make a lot of sense to me.

  Tinie Tempah

  People, Wander

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• The novel is very much alive, indeed. In Toronto at the Sixth Annual International Festival of Authors (October 1985) I listened to novelists by the dozen.

  William Golding

  Novelists, Toronto, Alive

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• When I was a teen, or like 18 to early 20s, I used to go to festivals all the time. I'd save all my money.

  Courtney Barnett

  Used, Early 20s

  "Courtney Barnett on songwriting, self-confidence, and her record label". Interview with Rose Riddell, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. February 29, 2016.

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• There's an amazing intimate feeling in a small club but an insane rush playing a stadium or festival.

  Tiesto

  Feelings, Insane, Clubs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Every year I'm doing different projects, concerts, touring, open-air festivals.

  Nina Hagen

  Air, Years, Different

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• If singing a couple of songs in a benefit will help keep the Festival alive and known, well, how can I say no to that?

  Stephanie D'Abruzzo

  Song, Couple, Singing

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I like being a patron of things, I like patronizing things. And if it's not going to be people, I'll patronize a festival.

  Terry Gilliam

  People, Patronizing, Ifs

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• I play the guitar. This year at the Sundance film festival, I joined the band from 'The Guitar' on stage. We warmed up for Patti Smith, and then the director Michel Gondry got on the drums to play some songs from the soundtrack to his film Be Kind Rewind with Mos Def. It was pretty mad.

  Saffron Burrows

  Song, Guitar, Years

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• Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me.

  Henry Rollins

  Summer, July, August

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• The National Book Festival is a great way for families and friends to share the creative works of some of America's most-loved authors, .. Readers of all ages can listen to favorite writers speaking about their books, have books autographed, meet many storybook characters and enjoy a day on the National Mall.

  Laura Bush

  Book, Character, America

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• The kind of sleep that I had during my own film [Certified Copy] screening in Cannes is different. It's not because of the specificity of the film. It was because of my relationship as an author to this film. Usually when I take my films to festivals, I feel incredibly anxious about them. I wonder how it will be received, how the audience will react. I feel deeply responsible for them. Whereas this time, I didn't have that responsibility on my shoulders.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Sleep, Responsibility, Different

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. March 17, 2011.

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• Our Feastival of Queens area, which featured five different authentic ethnic foods from Queens, was one of the most popular areas of the festival, and was written about in a number of different reviews.

  Tom Russell

  Queens, Numbers, Different

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• To just write one song to then go and play huge festivals all around the world it's exciting and it's never really been the case.

  Jade Puget

  Song, Writing, Play

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• I think people expect mud at festivals, I think you'd be asking for your money back if you didn't get it.

  Peter Hook

  Thinking, People, Asking

  Interview with Matt Cotterill, higher-frequency.com. April 15, 2006.

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• When we were shooting in Shreveport, me and a couple of friends went down to Lafayette, because they had a big Zydeco music festival down there. We spent two days dancing to Zydeco music, eating fried alligator... It was one of the craziest festivals I've ever been to in my life, but I loved it.

  Alexander Skarsgard

  Couple, Two, Dancing

  Interview with Win Butler, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 23, 2011.

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• I don't really expect much from my life. So when I heard my films are premiering in film festival circuits I was glad of course but I thought it was lucky accident.

  Takeshi Kitano

  Lucky, Film, Heard

  "Takeshi Kitano: Silent superstar" by Dean Irvine, edition.cnn.com. October 23, 2008.

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• There's nothing like a music festival. People are ready to have a good time. I don't think anyone comes to a festival going, 'I'm gonna be a complete bummer today.

  Gary Clark, Jr.

  Thinking, People, Today

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• One has just to be oneself. That's my basic message. The moment you accept yourself as you are, all burdens, all mountainous burdens, simply disappear. Then life is a sheer joy, a festival of lights.

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, Light, Joy

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• As a director, or just a film fan who wants to enjoy the festival, Cannes is the worst place to be. But it must be a paradise for distributors and importers.

  Bong Joon-ho

  Cannes Film Festival, Directors, Fans

  "An Interview With South Korea’s Box Office Champ Director Bong Joon-ho". Interview with Jon Herskovitz, blogs.reuters.com. June 15, 2009.

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• I love festivals because I feel like I'm more of a movie fan than a person who's in the film industry.

  Melanie Lynskey

  Fans, Film, Feels

  "Sundance 2012: Melanie Lynskey on the Rise of Female Protagonists and Which Screenings She Hopes to Catch (Q&A)". Interview with Sophie Schillaci, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 19, 2012.

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• Acting is a trick word invented in the festival of Dionysus, before Christ, in Greece at a fertility festival. That's where theatre came from: a fertility festival. No women were allowed. All the men played all the parts.

  Gary Busey

  Men, Theatre, Acting

  "An Interview With Gary Busey". Interview with Meagan Evans, 11thhouronline.com. March 11, 2010.

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• The first job I had with the Smithsonian was as a field researcher among African American communities in Southwest Louisiana and Arkansas for the festival.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Jobs, Community, African American

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• I suppose my little Martin acoustic guitar is quickly becoming a prize possession. It's a lovely guitar. I bought it at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2001 before I had cleaned up.

  Graham Coxon

  Guitar, Lovely, Littles

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• It was 1988, I believe, that I met Grit. We were both appearing in a Canadian Folk Festival and as we sat backstage he handed me his guitar. I played it, loved it, and then found out that he'd made it himself.

  Tom Chapin

  Love, Believe, Guitar

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• A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival.

  Caitlin Moran

  Community, Library, Emergencies

  Caitlin Moran (2012). “Moranthology”, p.211, Random House

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