Best Festivals Thoughts
228 Festivals quotes by 189 unique authors
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We live a life that is often spent in crowds - parties, festivals and first nights - so it's nice to avoid them.
— Julian Fellowes
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
— Salma Hayek
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When I was 13 or 14, I took seven months off from touring. I did a lot of weekend gigs in Louisiana. We have fairs…
— Hunter Hayes
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I did a production of 'Journey's End,' an RC Sherriff play about World War I, at the Edinburgh Festival. I was 18 and it was…
— Tom Hiddleston
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My idea of childcare at festivals is to sit at a trestle table with an ale while the kids run around and make up their…
— Tom Hodgkinson
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Long weekends at festivals, short weeks at home, all summer long: now that is surely preferable to the immense cost and headache of the nuclear…
— Tom Hodgkinson
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I'm launching my own festival in South Wales. It's something I've wanted to do for a long time. It's going to be held at Margam…
— Katherine Jenkins
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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
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I've always been dead set against festivals - really suspicious and wary.
— Elton John
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I discovered after going to music festivals that I am a rock fan. I love the guitars, the phrasing, and the abandon of rock fans.
— Beyonce Knowles
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But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who…
— Yo-Yo Ma
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To tell you the truth, man, we spend most of the time travelling in hotels, in festivals, in concert halls, clubs, airports. The most unenjoyable…
— Hugh Masekela
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When playing big festivals, I tend to play big, over the top techno tracks, like hands in the air songs that make sense being played…
— Moby
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Bluegrass has brought more people together and made more friends than any music in the world. You meet people at festivals and renew acquaintances year…
— Bill Monroe
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Toronto Film Festival is one of those festivals where there are 400 movies, and unless you have a distributor who is super confident and puts…
— Viggo Mortensen
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Well I was on the jury duty on the Deauville Film Festival, a few years ago.
— Liam Neeson
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I started graduate school in 1971, I started working at the Smithsonian in the festival in 1972. I went full-time at the Smithsonian in 1974.…
— Bernice Johnson Reagon
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We program the festival, after 20 years, exactly the way we did on the first day.
— Robert Redford
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Once the festival achieved a certain level of notoriety, then people began to come here with agendas that were not the same as ours. We…
— Robert Redford
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The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame…
— Keanu Reeves
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I remember when I was like 19 years old and I started a desk calendar company to pay for my first short film, just so…
— Jason Reitman
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Unlike with any other art form, filmmakers have this unique web of festivals. There are hundreds. It is a democratic system in which you submit…
— Jason Reitman
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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
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Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food.…
— Jonathan Sacks
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The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to…
— Jonathan Sacks
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