Festivals Quotes - Page 7

• Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day (the 4th of July)? Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior?.

  John Quincy Adams

  4th Of July, Events, World

  John Quincy Adams; Speech on Independence Day in Newburyport, Massachusetts, teachingamericanhistory.org. July 4, 1837.

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• I went to the Tokyo Film Festival in Japan because I love Japanese cinema.

  Leslie Caron

  Japan, Cinema, Tokyo

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• Government sponsorship of religious activity, including prayer services, sacred symbols, religious festivals, and the like, tends to secularize the religious activity rather than make government more ethical or religious.

  John M Swomley

  Religious, Prayer, Government

  John M. Swomley (1987). “Religious Liberty and the Secular State: The Constitutional Context”

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• I've spent a lot of very happy times in Edinburgh as a result of playing virtually every festival since 1996. It's also a beautiful city in its own right, is walkable, within sight of the sea and mountains - and was too far north for the Luftwaffe to have done any damage, hence the spectacularly beautiful architecture.

  Marcus Brigstocke

  Beautiful, Sight, Happy Times

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• King René of Anjou [(1409-80)]was a strange compound of amiable, great and trifling qualities. He was so excellent a sovereign as to acquire the surnom of the Good. He was brave in war, delighted in tournaments and wrote on them, instituted festivals and processions, partly religious and partly burlesque, was a fond husband, a romantic lover, a good painter for that age, and a true philosopher.

  Horace Walpole

  Religious, Kings, Husband

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• Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.

  Abel Ferrara

  Want, Film, Shows

  "Abel Ferrara on 'Go Go Tales'". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com.

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• This sounds so bogus, but I would love to, at some point when my kids are in college, is just go do a whole season at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and do a year of plays. Most actors miss the days of live theater.

  Donal Logue

  Kids, College, Years

  "Donal Logue Talks SONS OF ANARCHY, How His Role Came About and His Possible Return Next Season, Plus His Experience in VIKINGS and SILENT NIGHT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 4, 2012.

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• There is nothing in this world that I love more than my family. To be able to share the joy of running with them at the Runner's World Half Marathon and Running Festival where we can all participate together is as close as you can get to a perfect weekend.

  Summer Sanders

  Running, Weekend, Perfect

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• Then when I got to Hollywood, the first musical I did was Festival in 1977.

  Gregory Harrison

  Musical, Hollywood, Firsts

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• They call it collective energy. It's that same feeling that you get when you meditate amongst a ton of people. What actually makes the festival feel so special is that while you're watching a band or an artist, you're standing there, kind of feeling the same feeling with so many people in such a small space and that gives you collective energy. It's that kind of strange feeling in which you almost feel people breathing.

  Chelsea Leyland

  Artist, Breathing, Space

  Source: www.elle.com

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• [I would] just stick to the festival as much as possible. Because it's about the music for me, really. [I don't come] all the way here to go to trendy parties. There are some people who come here to go to parties. [The exception is when] it's an after-party and the festival has closed. Festivals are kind of magical places, and you need to soak as much of that up as possible.

  Chelsea Leyland

  Party, People, Needs

  Source: www.elle.com

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• When I used to do the Edinburgh Festival, there was a bunch of guys selling fresh oysters and I'd eat ten daily - marvellous.

  Paul Merton

  Oysters, Guy, Edinburgh

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• Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches and in punishment there is so much that is festive!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Punishment, Ancient, Cruelty

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Arlie J. Hoover (1994). “Friedrich Nietzsche: His Life and Thought”, Praeger Publishers

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• I watched the Star Wars trilogy with some good friends of mine for the first time in a few years, I read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies-one of those first mashup books-and then I went to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival with my family.

  Ian Doescher

  Stars, War, Book

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• People see musicians on a huge stage playing a festival for 80,000 people and are like, "Oh, they have such magnetism," but it always embarrasses me more than it makes me feel proud.

  Geoff Rickly

  People, Musician, Proud

  "United Nations". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2014.

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• ...Now since you are celebrating the holy Pascha, you should know, brethren, what the Pascha is. Pascha means the crossing-over, and so the Festival is called by this name. For it was on this day that the Children of Israel crossed over out of Egypt, and the Son of God crossed over from this world to His Father. What gain is it to celebrate unless you imitate Him Whom you worship; that is, unless you cross over from Egypt, that is, from the darkness of evildoing to the light of virtue, from the love of this world to the love of your heavenly home?

  Ambrose

  Children, Father, Mean

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• There are some films that arrive here from the international festival circuit almost incandescent with self-importance. They hover into the cinema in a kind of floating trance at how challenging and moving they are. They are films with a profound reluctance to get over themselves. They look up at the sceptical observer with the saucer-eyed saintliness of a baby seal in culling season, or a charity mugger smilingly wishing a nice day on the retreating back of a passer-by. One such is Babel.

  Peter Bradshaw

  Baby, Nice, Moving

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• Each year we go to the Cannes film festival and I tend to have all my friends pile in the back of my car and we'll drive from London. The poor production company think they're only putting me up and suddenly they've got eight people sleeping on my hotel room floor.

  Jeremy Irvine

  Sleep, Thinking, Cannes Film Festival

  "Jeremy Irvine’s Fan Club". Interview with Michael Douglas, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 17, 2015.

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• Can I just tell you the truth? I get asked to do a lot of stuff. And all of the years that people have asked me to do things for the film festival, I couldn't. And so this year, I thought, "Oh, my god, I don't have a day job. If somebody ask me to do something, I'm going to do it."

  Oprah Winfrey

  Jobs, Years, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Pontus, instituted among all people, as an addition or corollary of devotion towards God, that festival days and assemblies should be celebrated to them who had contended for the faith (that is, to lie martyrs ).

  Isaac Newton

  Lying, People, Devotion

  "Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse of St. John". Volume 1, p. 204, 1733.

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• Brad got me this great thing for Christmas. It's a bookshelf that has a book on every religion. That's how we plan to raise our kids. Teach them about all religions. They can pick one or be a student of all of them. We'll celebrate Kwanzaa for our girl. We'll celebrate moon and water festivals for our boys. We'll take them to temples in certain countries. Also to church.

  Angelina Jolie

  Girl, Country, Book

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• Duke Ellington's career traces the entire history of jazz. The repertoire associated with him contains the most important elements in the music and provides concrete examples of some of the best ways to present the music in the widest variety of settings-radio, TV, recordings, movies, concert halls, festivals, solo, small ensemble, big band, symphony orchestra, opera, Broadway shows.... You name it, he did it!

  Billy Taylor

  Names, Careers, Symphony

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• For me, my taste is all over the place, so the festival is the perfect match for me because I can hit, again, Against Me! and SZA, all those different genres and the experience is awesome.

  Jennifer Abbott

  Perfect, Different, Taste

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Hangovers are a vivid form of vengeance. Last night my apartment became the venue for a small, introverted chardonnay festival. A melancholy choir of Bulgarians provided the entertainment, via a set of headphones that ended up irredeemably tangled beneath the bed. Part of me just watched. The other part was in charge.

  Liz Jensen

  Hangover, Night, Tangled

  Liz Jensen (2009). “The Rapture”, p.101, A&C Black

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• I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival.

  Pat Conroy

  Writing, Kids, Novelists

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