Festivals Quotes - Page 12

• Festivals are a time to play the songs people know and are looking forward to hearing.

  Scott Hutchison

  Song, Play, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Our film [Hide and seek ]was created as part of the Asian American Film Lab's 11th 72 Hour Film Shootout filmmaking competition, where filmmaking teams have just 72 hours to conceive, write, shoot, edit and submit a film based on a common theme. The winners were announced during the 38th Asian American International Film Festival in New York last July. The theme for 2015 was 'Two Faces' and was part of a larger more general theme of 'Beauty'.

  Garth Kravits

  New York, Team, Writing

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• The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

  Germaine Greer

  Women, Struggle, Joy

  Germaine Greer (1970). “The female eunuch”, Macgibbon & Kee

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• We program the festival, after 20 years, exactly the way we did on the first day.

  Robert Redford

  Years, Way, Firsts

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• In nothing more is the English genius for domesticity more notably declared than in the institution of this festival-almost one may call it-of afternoon tea...the mere chink of cups and saucers tunes the mind to happy repose.

  George Gissing

  Food, Grandmother, Cooking

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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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• For seven years I wrote and published my texts on the Internet and no Arab festival invited me and no Arab publishing house wanted to publish my books, and I wasn't known in the Western world because of my political positions.

  Hassan Blasim

  Book, Publishing House, Years

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The Arab world is full of corruption, in the time of the dictatorships and in the time of anarchy. This corruption is not only in politics and the economy, but also in the field of creative activity. There's an elite that controls the festivals, the newspapers, and the reviews. They are just a corrupt clique with no interest in creativity.

  Hassan Blasim

  Creativity, Creative, World

  Source: www.guernicamag.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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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’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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• 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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• 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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• Why won't they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, can't they use birth control on time? I want an interregnum. The stupid years patter on with unrelenting feet, never stopping - rising to little monotonous peaks in our imaginations at festivals like New Year's and Easter and Christmas - But, goodness, why need they do it?

  John Dos Passos

  New Year, Time, Easter

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• But there's more than just solving the how-to problems. I've often said that if we're going to have a real rural renaissance, I'd just take the solving of the how-to problems for granted. The first thing I'd provide would be festivals.

  Ralph Borsodi

  Friendship, Real, Justice

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• Suffering is not holding you. You are holding suffering. When you become good at the art of letting sufferings go, then you'll come to realize how unnecessary it was for you to drag those burdens around with you. You'll see that no one else other than you was responsible. The truth is that existence wants your life to become a festival.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Letting Go, Art

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• Thus one of Europe's most serious crises will be ended, and all of us, not only in Germany but those far beyond our frontiers, will then in this year for the first time really rejoice at the Christmas festival. It should for us all be a true Festival of Peace.

  Adolf Hitler

  Years, Europe, Germany

  Adolf Hitler (1969). “The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922-August 1939”

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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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• Christianity indeed has equaled Judaism in the atrocities, and exceeded it in the extent of its desolation. Eleven millions of men, women, and children have been killed in battle, butchered in their sleep, burned to death at public festivals of sacrifice, poisoned, tortured, assassinated, and pillaged in the spirit of the Religion of Peace, and for the glory of the most merciful God.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Religious, Children, Sleep

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Homer, Euripides, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1929). “The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”

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• We have a small, tight family. I left home at a young age and the best thing for me was to go home at Christmas-time and spend time with my family and friends. It's kind of funny, most people do turkey and all the trimmings, but we would have a big seafood festival because it's the only time of the year that we'd eat it. We never really went caroling, but once in a while we'd got out for a sleigh ride

  Jimmy Roy

  Funny Christmas, Home, Years

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• Name me any liquid — except our own blood — that flows more intimately and incessantly through the labyrinth of symbols we have conceived to mark our status as human beings, from the rudest peasant festival to the mystery of the Eucharist.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Wine, Blood, Names

  "Wine Buyers Guide".

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