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It feels so good to be able to be part of an action flick like 'The Raid' and to read the rave reviews in a number of film festivals. — Joe Taslim

If extravagance were a fault, it would not have a place in the festivals of the gods. — Aristippus

This is our festival and on this day we are all Indians. We celebrate the festival by maintaining the spirit of brotherhood. — Brinda Karat

I am not a regular at film festivals. — Lillete Dubey

The greatness of a culture can be found in its festivals — Siddharth Katragadda

There is less leisure now than in the Middle Ages, when one third of the year consisted of holidays and festivals. — Ralph Borsodi

In India, there is a psychological problem that movies going to film festivals are boring. It is a problem with exhibitors. — Anurag Kashyap

I saw my first gig here actually (Festival Hall in Brisbane) Duran Duran. — Bernard Fanning

The festivals are cool because you make a lot of connections at the festivals. — Philipp Wolter

We're playing all these weird festivals, usually outdoors. — Thurston Moore

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

Festival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions of all forms of youthful activity of every generation springing from the threshold of life. — Pierre De Coubertin

That incredible bubble and high expectations built at festivals can work against a film. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I love being in public places, but I can't stand long, drawn-out music festivals. — Lamorne Morris

It's hard to get that real good feeling about festivals sometimes. — Meg White

Death is the supreme festival on the road to freedom. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A funeral isn't for the dead. You'll simply be a stage set for a kind of festival maybe. And besides, you won't even be there. — John Steinbeck

The Banff Mountain [Book] Festival attracts this huge number of travel writers. Whereas when I go to literary festivals ... — John Gimlette

I started doing independent films. My first one was 'Miss Bala,' which was very well-received at film festivals. — Stephanie Sigman

Christmas Day is the festival of optimism. — Helen Keller

To get noticed, I had to take my films in a space which was much more democratic in terms of cinema - the international film festivals. — Anurag Kashyap

Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count
/ Festival of the Souls. — Matsuo Basho

Festivals cause diseases, since they lighten cares but increase gluttony. — Apollonius Of Tyana

I got more publicity for not doing a festival than for doing the festival. — George Wein

I see most of my movies at festivals. — Jean Reno

I've been to the Reading festival twice before-as a punter, though I stayed backstage in the hospitality tent! — Bruce Dickinson

That was very close to getting killed. Usually at pop festivals we have people jumping on stage. — Alice Cooper

I haven't played EDC since 2011. Normally, my sound fits a little bit better in mixed festivals. — Skrillex

He was deader than a shrunken head at a Hackey Sack festival. — Scott Adams

As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future
a terrible festival of dead leaves. — Anna Akhmatova

Truth is, generally I like film festivals; somewhere at some level there's an exchange of ideas. — Willem Dafoe

For the wise man, every day is a festival. — Plutarch

Elections are a festival of democracy. Everyone must join this festival of democracy and strengthen it. — Narendra Modi

I will not do festivals. The thought of an audience that big frightens the life out of me. — Adele

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

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

I've always been dead set against festivals - really suspicious and wary. — Elton John

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

Remember when movies were just good or bad, before auteurs, film festivals, and guys from USC who were the first to shoot underwater? — Mort Sahl

Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gathered, it is the fourth of Seventh-month, (what salutes of cannon and small arms! — Walt Whitman

When it's a folk festival, there's more of an intention on the song and connecting with people. — Jenny O.

Playing to bigger audiences at festivals got me in the mindset of writing music that I would sing to a crowd. — Caroline Polachek

We live a life that is often spent in crowds - parties, festivals and first nights - so it's nice to avoid them. — Julian Fellowes

Going to see Godzilla at the Palais of the Cannes Film Festival is like attending a satanic ritual in St. Peter's Basilica. — Roger Ebert

I listen to all types of different music. I go to different festivals. I'm around music. — Rico Love

Festivals are a time to play the songs people know and are looking forward to hearing. — Scott Hutchison

All summer long; we'll be playing the festivals. We'll be Reading, we'll be Leeds, we'll be around. — Anthony Kiedis

I want to play more festivals. — Kat Edmonson

Even as a spectator, beer tastings and festivals are just about the best way to learn about - and enjoy - beer. Many of the events in — Randy Mosher

The more weapons of violence, the more misery to mankind. The triumph of violence ends in a festival of mourning. — Laozi

I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out. — Gabrielle Aplin

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 own games. — Tom Hodgkinson

The moon has become a dancer
at this festival of LOVE. — Rumi

It's going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People's Park, all rolled into one. — Abbie Hoffman

Village reform is not merely cleaning the roads, constructing schools and worshipping monasteries. It is not mere celebration of festivals. — Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

At 7, I was at the barre and dancing at folk festivals. Then I was a student with the ballet school of the Metropolitan Opera. — Maria Karnilova

Festivals are great because you get to just walk around the corner and see a new band that you've heard but not had the chance to check out. — Johnny Marr

My school is very good and quite understanding and know I have to take time off for interviews or writers' festivals. — Alexandra Adornetto

Life is a happy thing, a festival to be enjoyed rather than a drudgery to be endured. — Luci Swindoll

Life is a festival only to the wise. Seen from the nook and chimneyside of prudence, it wears a ragged and dangerous front. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

I love festivals because I feel like I'm more of a movie fan than a person who's in the film industry. — Melanie Lynskey

You feel like half of your life is a vacation when you go to these Barcelona music festivals and have all day to sound check or go to the pool. — Hamilton Leithauser

I like that conventions want me to appear and festivals want me to come speak because they like the climate I attract. It's a good feeling. — Adam Green

Spend your time with family and people you love. Don't wait for festivals be with them, each moment you're with them, that's a festival. — Sarvesh Jain

When I do the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, I always go across to Loch Ness and stay there. — Rhys Darby

Comedy - particularly the frothy and frivolous - is notoriously neglected by festivals and awards. But it's bloody hard to get right. — Colin Firth

I've been to two festivals in my life, and I've never been to Toronto. I haven't really been making festival movies. This is new territory for me. — Joss Whedon

Spring and summer in Pittsburgh mean outdoor festivals. — Bill Dedman

Festivals become a family because you start seeing the same people. — Philipp Wolter

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

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

I was not born under a rhyming planet, nor I cannot woo to in festival terms. — William Shakespeare

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

Beach Balls at festivals, are the work of the devil! — Gerard Way

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

People are going to be seeing me a lot everywhere: TVs, music, movies, festivals. You name it, I'm gonna be there. — AraabMuzik

I think people expect mud at festivals, I think you'd be asking for your money back if you didn't get it. — Peter Hook

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

A highly promising new artist and I look forward to seeing Natalie McCool perform at major festivals and concerts in the future — Harvey Goldsmith

Bringing production to a festival can be tricky sometimes. — Mikey Way

The time for prizes and competitions at art festivals is over. Competition is too closely tied to values that are alien to the arts. — Renata Adler