Festivals Quotes - Page 4

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

  Nina Hagen

  Air, Years, Different

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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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• 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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• What can I say? I hate Bush; I despise him and his entire administration, everything he represents and everything he has tried to do, not only internationally, which is horrific, but domestically as well. In my country the atmosphere is poisoned. Unbreathable for those of us who are not on the right. So thank you for inviting me to this festival and allowing me to leave there for a few days.

  Jessica Lange

  Country, Hate, Atmosphere

  "Film director Spielberg lines up with Bush war drive". www.wsws.org. October 3, 2002.

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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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• 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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• The economic picture in the States today doesn't allow for jazz concerts in a tour fashion. People now are too used to the Festival, which gives them more names for the same price.

  Norman Granz

  Fashion, Names, People

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• We're excited to be appearing in Tel Aviv in the framework of the Pic.nic festival. This is an important tour for us and we're glad that Israel is part of it

  Julio Iglesias

  Israel, Important, Excited

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• The Romans had, like other Pagan nations, a nature festival, called by them Saturnalia, and the Northern peoples had Yule; both celebrated the turn of the year from the death of winter to the life of spring - the winter solstice. As this was an auspicious change the festival was a very joyous one... The giving of presents and the burning of candles characterized it. Among the Northern people the lighting of a huge log in the houses of the great and with appropriate ceremonies was a feature.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Spring, Winter, Years

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• Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan.

  Olivia Wilde

  Writing, Kids, Scripts

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• Well I'm Superman, just not action. I'm kind of looking for something with a lot less action and more talking and listening. I also have a film that's premiering Vegas Film Festival, short film, directed by Joel Kelly, it's called Denial and it's a story, short film, 35 mm short film and it's about a man's struggle to choose between the woman of his dreams and his reality, so it's definitely different than Superman. So I'm really proud of that.

  Brandon Routh

  Dream, Struggle, Reality

  "Brandon Routh for 'Superman Returns'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. June 16, 2006.

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• Salma and I had run into each other once or twice at film festivals because I was doing the press for Real Women Have Curves at the same time she was doing the press for Frida. She had seen Real Women Have Curves, and when the idea of Ugly Betty came up, she thought of me. Her enthusiasm about the project was so infectious-she spoke of it with such expectation. Everyone that was involved was really excited about the project. I really wanted to be a part of it.

  America Ferrera

  Running, Real, Curves

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• Not only weight loss surgery is unnecessary but also it deprives human being a normal life. People after surgery would never be able to enjoy their food ever for the rest of their life whether it is Christmas or they are on their holidays or their child birthday or any other festival. List of problems and complications after the weight loss surgery operation are endless as one may get additional problems such as Hernia, Internal Bleeding, Swelling of the skin around the wounds, etc. I wonder how many weight loss surgeons advice about weight loss surgery to their own family members.

  Subodh Gupta

  Children, Holiday, Loss

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• That's what Hanukkah is about: trying to survive the darkness on the far-fetched hope there's still some life and light left in the universe. It's more than just a religious story. The days have been growing shorter, imperceptibly but inescapably darker.... Heading into the night of the winter solstice, every spiritual tradition has some kind of festival of light. We're all just whistling in the dark, hoping against hope that someone up there will see these little Hanukkah candles and get the hint.

  Lawrence Kushner

  Spiritual, Religious, Dark

  Lawrence Kushner (2010). “I'm God, You're Not: Observations on Organized Religion & Other Disguises of the Ego”, p.103, Jewish Lights Publishing

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