Festivals Quotes - Page 3

• I had excellent opportunity to intoxicate myself with the solemn splendor of the brilliant church festivals. As was only natural, the abbot seemed to me, as the village priest had once seemed to my father, the highest and most desirable ideal.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Father, Opportunity

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I see most of my movies at festivals.

  Jean Reno

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• Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy.

  Alistair Cooke

  Christmas, Christian, Country

  Alistair Cooke (2007). “Letter from America, 1946-2004”, p.131, Knopf

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• The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life.

  Robert Morrison MacIver

  Success, Stress, Healthy

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• I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.

  Taylor Swift

  Country, Song, Artist

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• The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.

  Gavin Bryars

  Academic, Modern, Music Festival

  Klassiknet Interview, www.culturekiosque.com.

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• Let every birthday be a festival, a time when the gladness of the house finds expression in flowers, in gifts, in a little fête. Never should a birthday be passed over without note, or as if it were a common day, never should it cease to be a garlanded milestone in the road of life.

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

  Flower, Expression, House

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• The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.

  Charles Lamb

  Purpose, Letters, Red

  Charles Lamb (1841). “The Essays of Elia”

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• Still, as much as I wish Ballistic Kiss could be a better film, the recognition it gained from critics and at festivals speaks for itself.

  Donnie Yen

  Kissing, Wish, Kiss Me

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• I sang in a rock band when I was training as a lawyer. You know, not professional, we just did it for fun. We just did gigs all over Edinburgh and some in Glasgow and some at festivals.

  Gerard Butler

  Fun, Rocks, Training

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• Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures.

  David K. Shipler

  Spiritual, Song, Age

  David K. Shipler (2015). “Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land”, p.28, Broadway Books

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• Now, there are so many movies, so many festivals, and so many awards going on, each judged with each other, like your work is worse than others and that's not fair. How can you tell what's best and what's worst from these awards? We're talking about art.

  Javier Bardem

  Art, Awards, Talking

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• Teller and I worked Renaissance Festivals and street performing - actually more real, no kidding around, Philadelphia street performing than we did Renaissance Festivals.

  Penn Jillette

  Real, Philadelphia, Renaissance

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

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• I really love the festival circuit.

  Michelle Monaghan

  Circuits

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• Rent Control was an interesting movie. It was directed by... I had done a couple of plays off Broadway, and this Italian director came, his name was Gian Luigi Polidoro, and he determined I was the person to play the lead in his low-budget comedy. He'd won an award at the Venice Film Festival, and... He was, y'know, a skilled director.

  Brent Spiner

  Couple, Italian, Play

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Film festivals are a great vehicle for gaining an audience for your film, for exposure for the talent in the film and for the film makers to leverage opportunities for their films. I love the energy that film festivals bring.

  Jamie Hector

  Opportunity, Energy, Talent

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The purpose of seasonal festivals is periodically to revive the topocosm. Gaster coined this word from the Greek - topo for place and cosmos for world order. Topocosm means "the world order of a particular place." The topocosm is the entire complex of any given locality conceived as a living organism, not just the human community but the total community - the plants, animals and soils of the place. The topocosm is not only the actual and present living community but also that continuous entity of which the present community is but the current manifestation.

  Dolores LaChapelle

  Life, Mean, Animal

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• There's a film there in competition [of Sundance Film Festival] called To The Bone. It's directed by Marti Noxon. I have a supporting role in it. It got really well received. It's a really great film.

  Keanu Reeves

  Competition, Roles, Bones

  Source: lrmonline.com

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• Be merry, really merry. The life of a true Christian should be a perpetual jubilee, a prelude to the festivals of eternity.

  Theophane Venard

  Christian, Jubilee, Eternity

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• There's all these people involved, and it becomes this huge machine - it stops being just me making my own little songs for myself, or for the world. And it's hard to stop the machine. If you want to take time to write a record, they're like, "OK, tour through March, April, and June, then you can take a few weeks off to record in July before getting back on the road for the European festival circuit." After a while, I had to put my foot down.

  Zachary Cole Smith

  Song, Writing, Feet

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• My favorite drawings at the Muhammad cartoon festival in Texas were the two chalk outlines out front.

  Evan Sayet

  Texas, Two, Drawing

  Evan Sayet @EvanSayet, twitter.com. May 04, 2015.

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• To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle [....] Without cruelty there is no festival.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Suffering, Principles, Doe

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• American audiences don't react in the same way as European ones to African music because, I think, Europeans listen to this music through all the festivals that exist here.

  Rokia Traore

  Thinking, African Music, Way

  Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2009.

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• At the end of the day, if I do a set at a festival and I only have an hour, which is kind of short for a DJ set, I know that I have to play at least six of my songs. Then the whole challenge is what do I weave around that. How do I stand out? Because at a festival there's probably fifteen songs every DJ's going to play every hour, for the whole day. That to me is more interesting, because I still feel like an outsider in this world.

  A-Trak

  Song, Play, Interesting

  Source: www.gq.com

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• My family traveled with a whole community to European festivals. My mum did gymnastics, freak show performances, and swung fire in the circus, so I followed her footsteps.

  Neon Hitch

  Gymnastics, Fire, Community

  Source: www.elle.com

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