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

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

Festivals are always fun. I went to a lot when I was younger and had money to go to them. I like playing at festivals. They're always kind of like a big, crazy circus.

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.

This should be a very relaxing event. Not one of those festivals with a lot of noise and confusion.

This should be one of the first area ice festivals this year with weather suited for the event.

There are a few (film) festivals in Georgia. One of the biggest is in Atlanta. Savannah has a big one. Rome has a small one. There are a few out there. ... They can recruit companies to Georgia. Bringing producers and directors in can expose them to the state and therefore encourage companies to come to Georgia. That's very important to us.

We've participated in so many festivals and activities in the community. It shows we're a growing community.

While the gay life is often glorified in 'pride' festivals and through the media, we offer a distinctly different message -- one of hope and healing for those who don't share that sense of pride. I and thousands of others know firsthand that there is a way out of unwanted homosexuality.

This was a very challenging year, but I'm very proud of this lineup. A lot of other jazz festivals have gone under, but not only are we alive, there are a lot of folks around the country who would pay to see this lineup.

We lost money the first year I was here, but we've made money every year since 1999. I think the board of directors that hired me would be blown away by what we're doing now. I know I'm blown away. We've grown into one of the more lucrative festivals in the state.

At that time, 1970, not many white people had seen black gospel in its full glory. Gospel was not common at blues festivals or jazz festivals. So, you know, we got on kind of a mission there to bring gospel on down to the front of the bus, as we called it.

Festivals today are driven by female perspective. My film is about heterosexual men over 40. And it was very much alone.

Festivals cause diseases, since they lighten cares but increase gluttony.

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.

These are the sort of films we are actively and passionately looking for. They have excited audiences and jurors alike at a number of film festivals because they are stunning and emotional pieces of work, and we are happy to be involved with such excellent movies.

The Telluride Film Festival is different from all other festivals for its un-hyped enthusiasm and casualness, ... The Industry likes that about the event. It's not one big photo op. It has always been more about movies as fun and a cultural medium, than the marketplace.

Our ambition is to stage one of the most significant cultural festivals of the year.

This is the first time that Hong Kong films have been selected to close and open one of the major film festivals in Europe,

This is one of the best Christian festivals I've been to.

A lot of people who are not familiar with film festivals need to see stars in their movie to make them want to see the film. Our hope is they'll see all the programming we have and want to see the other films, too.

It's true. We've never been part of the mainstream of anything, ... But being called 'fringe' is nothing to be ashamed of. In the context of theater, fringe is good. Think of the fringe festivals that take place around the world now. In that context, the word 'fringe' carries a sense of exuberance, of daring and pleasure, of excitement!

It's going to grow. Most festivals take three to five years to get there. You've got to introduce the local people to bluegrass. A lot of them wouldn't know a local band from a headliner. If we can hang in there for five years, we'll see a lot bigger crowd.

It's going to grow. Most festivals take three to five years to get there,

It's so rare, I've only seen soft-shell crab festivals in a few locations. We're really lucky to have them here.

I want to bring recognition to our program by winning festivals and drawing interest to our school.

I want it to take me around the world. So far, I have lots of festivals lined up, in England, Italy, Norway, other places. And I'll hopefully be back in the States in May or June. I already have five new songs for the next album and plan on releasing it the end of this year or early last year.

The festivals just keep getting bigger and better. We showed four films and had over 200 people attend. Now, with additional funding and the number of great films that are available, we are doubling the number that we have done in the past.

The festival, from the beginning, got a cult following because there were no other festivals in the community, at the time they were folding, and because it was free.

I'm pleased that after all the hard work and challenges, the film will premiere at one of the world's leading film festivals

I'm from a little island off of Massachusetts, Nantucket. It's hard getting into the music business from there, but my parents took me to songwriting festivals because I would write and produce my own music.

I'll charge you the same price I did in the festivals first year, zero.

I'm booked solid for this year, and I'll just be travelling and playing like always the rest of the year. I've turned down twenty-seven bluegrass festivals this year, and it's been standing room only everywhere we go. I can only speak for myself, but it's the best it's ever been for me. I've been blessed with a lot of good health. I get my rest and sit back a little. I think I've got one of the best, if not the best, bands I've ever had.

If you get to bring a little movie on the festival circuit, it's a nice experience because you get to see it with an audience. People who go to festivals to watch films are usually a little more eager to enjoy them. It's exciting because it's like you're going to the film's opening night at every festival.

In other festivals you're stuck in your dressing room all day.

Were not a festival band, playing during the day was something we had to get over, I was like uhh this sun stuff kind of sucks

Beach balls at festivals are the work of the devil.

At the heart of the celebration, there are the poor. If [they] are excluded, it is not longer a celebration. [...] A celebration must always be a festival of the poor.

I don't think the new festivals have affected us. You'd look at whether films we want are choosing to go elsewhere or whether we are losing audience and so far neither has happened.

I do four or five of these festivals a year. They are a wonderful thing. They celebrate Italian heritage, culture, and food -- great food. I like to give back to the Italian community.

It's a very strange experience to watch yourself in a movie anyway. I most frequently don't do it, but if I was going to do it, I would do it in a private way, not at a public screening at a film festival, which is just an overwhelming experience.

Bringing production to a festival can be tricky sometimes.

When I first saw The Black Kat Boppers I was sat on a hill at a festival and could hear this music in a tent that literally grabbed me by the lapels and dragged me in

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

I really love the festival circuit.

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

We have to change this whole earth into a tremendous festival, and it is possible because man brings all that is needed to transform this earth into a paradise.

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

Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day (the 4th of July)? Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior?.

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

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.

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

We enjoyed the fact that we were called to the folk festivals and we got to know Joan Baez, Dylan. We were singing strictly gospel, but then after we started hearing songs that they would sing, we saw that those songs were very fitting for us because they were singing the truth, and truth is gospel.

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

These kind of festivals can be massive for an economy, ... You don't need to build new stadiums, pass tax levies to fund development. You utilize existing facilities, the stuff that's there. Once you get a routine down, it's healthy for everyone involved and people know it's a destination city

A great location in Central Florida and a variety of recreational opportunities, festivals and events continue to draw retirees to DeLand.

The film-festival crowd is a completely different animal. These people seek out movies at festivals . . . that they might not otherwise have the opportunity to see.

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.

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

This festival... the festival of Makar Sankranti... is our way of showing love towards nature. While global warming poses a serious threat to the world and mankind, this message of love for our environment is extremely essential.

All of The Dresden Dolls upcoming scheduled appearances at European Festivals have been cancelled.

I watch many, many, many independent films every year that you see once in a film festival and they're never heard of ever again. Many of them are very, very good.

I love the outdoor festival feeling.

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

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.

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.

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

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

European festivals area lot bigger than American ones, but I like the travelling festivals, it's the same production every day and the bands get used to the stage set up and by the third or fourth show of the tour they're putting on a better show than if they just played one day.

Martin's Monsanto poem holds devastating power. I heard the first public reading at the Resurgence Festival of well-being in London. It brought truth with clarity, not least with a kind of conviction and passion that is all too rare

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

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

I started with commercials - for shampoo, pancakes, insurance, Volvo. I did a Lux soap commercial with Sarah Jessica Parker. And I got a role in an indie film called Satellite that did well in festivals.

I love playing the CMA Music Festival each year because it's one of the very best audiences you could hope for. It's one of the places you can perform where you know everyone there is a big Country Music fan.

Live interaction with a crowd is a cathartic, spiritual kind of exchange, and its intensified at a festival.

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.

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

Sin met Mae and Alan coming into the flat. Mae frowned. "Is it no-shirts festival day?" "Every day with Nick is no-shirts festival day," Alan said absently, but he was frowning too.

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

Making money is awesome and fun as hell, but they're saying, "Well, you're offered a whole lot of money to do this," and it's like, well, I do want the money, but I don't really do that - like headline a big festival or something like that. I could go there and do that, but it isn't really what I do. It feels weird to me.

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

Pontus , instituted among all people, as an addition or corollary of devotion towards God , that festival days and assemblies should be celebrated to them who had contended for the faith (that is, to lie martyrs ).

Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches and in punishment there is so much that is festive!

Christmas Day is the festival of optimism.

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.

For the wise man, every day is a festival.

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

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

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