Festivals Quotes - Page 12

• On each race is laid the duty to keep alight its own lamp of mind as its part in the illumination of the world. To break the lamp of any people into deprive it of its rightful place in the world festival.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Illumination, Race, People

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Essays”, p.515, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Being raised a Jew in southern California in the 1950s and 1960s, my religious training emphasized learning the Hebrew language and Jewish festivals, history, and culture. We also remembered the Holocaust and supported the newly formed Jewish state of Israel.

  Rick Strassman

  Religious, Israel, California

  Rick Strassman, M.D. (2000). “DMT: The Spirit Molecule: A Doctor's Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences”, p.295, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• Alan Paul plunges into Chinese life and takes us along for the ride, through vegetable markets, used-car lots, Taoist temples, divey bars, and a beachside music festival before thousands of cheering fans. He conveys the thrills and challenges of living abroad, the confusions and regrets, and most of all the opportunity to become the person we always hoped to be.

  Peter Hessler

  Regret, Cheer, Opportunity

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• I’ve found that festivals are a relatively painless way to meet people and make a few points that need making, without having to hit them over the head with too many speeches.

  Pete Seeger

  People, Needs, Speech

  "Pete Seeger’s Last War". Interview with David Hajdu, www.motherjones.com. September 2004.

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• Joan of Arc is my namesake. I played her character while still in my teens, at a music festival held at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

  Joan Van Ark

  Character, Colorado, Boulders

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• Selfridges’ Christmas hot list includes faux fur animal hats by Merrimaking, currently enjoying a cult status in Japan and amongst festival goers.

  Geraldine James

  Animal, Japan, Hot

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• Sundance felt like a natural fit. I love coming here, and I do think that this festival suits my films rather than most of the festivals I've been to. I'm not going to Cannes, you know.

  Taika Waititi

  Thinking, Suits, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• When it's your own thing there's a lot more pressure to make it awesome, since these people bought tickets specifically for you. Whereas at the festivals, you're one of many acts on a bill so I find it's less pressure.

  Flume

  People, Bills, Pressure

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• I like your own shows because you can have a bit more fun and extend your set, you can go a bit over if you want because it's your show. Whereas at festivals it's very strict, like if you go like two minutes over they get ready to pull the plug kind-of-thing. They're both good and bad.

  Flume

  I Like You, Fun, Two

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• It feels good, it feels like a badge of honor, honestly. Amongst the artists here, in California, that festival is such a big deal. People live and die for Coachella. So to be a part of it on such a big scale is really flattering, and I feel really lucky to be part of the community.

  Zella Day

  Artist, California, People

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I think festivals are way more easygoing than back-to-back tours are. 'Cause for me, when you get to go to a festival, you get to hang out all day, and you're really taken care of, and there's usually a little artist village where all the artists have their own tents, and it's catered, and then you go and play an hour-long set depending on where you are on the lineup. And then you go back and you hang out and you even get to go watch other artists play. So it's really just a fun interactive experience for everybody.

  Zella Day

  Fun, Taken, Artist

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I stopped my iTunes festival set because someone fainted at the front. It felt like the right thing to do at the time but maybe I was being too sensitive.

  Rae Morris

  Sensitive, Things To Do, Itunes

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• Beach balls at festivals are the work of the devil.

  Gerard Way

  Beach, Devil, Balls

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• You have to be born with it. You can't even buy it. If you could buy it, they'd have it at the next Newport Festival.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Next, Jazz

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• I channel the rote and the new and unseen. My head has always been the busiest of crossroads, a festival of happy and unhappy arrivals. In the hours before daybreak when I was a boy, god sent me words as visitors.

  Jim Shepard

  Boys, Unhappy, Unseen

  Jim Shepard (2008). “Like You'd Understand, Anyway: Stories”, p.130, Vintage

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• No festival of martial glory or warrior's renown is this; no pageant pomp of war-like conquest, no glory of fratricidal strife attend this day. It is dedicated to peace, civilization and the triumphs of industry. It is a demonstration of fraternity and the harbinger of a better age-a more chivalrous time, when labor shall be best honored and well rewarded.

  Peter J. McGuire

  War, Civilization, Honor

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• Try to enjoy the great festival of life with other men!

  Epictetus

  Life, Men, Trying

  Epictetus (2013). “The Golden Sayings of Epictetus In Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, p.3, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife, actually, was an effort to put something on the mall in Washington so American tourists could walk through America, and in their minds everything on the mall would be American

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  America, Effort, Mind

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• 'Big Day Out' is one of our favourite festivals, it's such an eclectic mix of so many different things and it's really about music - which is what a good festival should be about. The reaction from the fans in that part of the world rivals our greatest territories and the kids are always very rabid and very appreciative of us being there, so we're super excited to get back.

  Mikey Way

  Kids, Fans, Different

  "Mikey Way talks of Big Day Out 2012!". Coup De Main Magazine Interview, January 2012.

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• The irony of a director going to film festivals is you never get to see any of the films.

  Tom Hooper

  Directors, Irony, Film

  "The Real Events That Tom Hooper Didn't Include in The Danish Girl, and Why". Interview with Maggie Panos, www.popsugar.com. January 5, 2016.

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• I've done festivals in the past where I'd be a guest, it was like, Wow, maybe someday I could play Town Hall - but that'll be a long way off. So it's very exciting.

  John Mulaney

  Past, Play, Long

  "Best comedy 2013: John Mulaney interview". Interview with Matthew Love, www.timeout.com. November 5, 2013.

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• Bringing production to a festival can be tricky sometimes.

  Mikey Way

  Sometimes, Tricky, Productions

  "Mikey Way talks of Big Day Out 2012!". Coup De Main Magazine Interview, January 2012.

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• Whenever you take a subject you're obsessed with or that haunts you, and make a movie about it, you're converting it into work units that need to be completed. You gotta turn it into a treatment, a script, a grant application, a bunch of forms to be filled out, a shooting schedule, casting sessions, auditions, shooting, editing, music compositions, the film festival circuit, interviews even. And by the time you've finished the process you're so sick and tired by something that was once very precious to you that you're done with it.

  Guy Maddin

  Tired, Editing, Filled Out

  Source: thequietus.com

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• It's something that exists on a daily basis on practically every street in India. You have people who are Hindus, Muslims, Christians - not just Catholics, but Protestants, you name it, all kinds of Christians - a hundred other religions, living side by side. And the kind of personal religion that people end up practicing is a bizarre concoction of ritual drawn from each other. So everybody ends up celebrating everyone else's festivals.

  Anita Rau Badami

  Christian, Names, People

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• When my stories were translated into other languages and received good reviews in the international press and won prizes, some Arab festivals and newspapers began to take an interest in what I had produced. This sudden Arab interest is a form of hypocrisy and nonsense.

  Hassan Blasim

  Hypocrisy, Stories, Language

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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