Festival Quotations | Page 4

The festival is totally different this year. We have more rides, more food, more entertainment and more and bigger competitions.

The festival is just a wonderful time. Usually the winter is so drab and cold, so the festival gives families a chance to go outside and enjoy the city.

The festival is going to have its own doses of glamour. European cinema is starting to get glamour.

The festival is going to be happening this weekend. Everyone who decides to come down is going to have a lot of fun even if it is a little drizzly.

The festival is excited to be able to give back to the community,

The festival is a wonderful event, bringing together Scotland's finest storytellers and international guests for a programme of folk tales, performance and music.

The festival is as much a celebration of the readers as of the authors,

The festival in 1992, held at Charterhouse, was the best year we had. That year, Andrew Flintoff, Liam Botham, Gareth Batty, David Sales, Alex Tudor, Ben Hollioake, David Nash and Owais Shah made it through. They had the same camaraderie that there is now in the England side.

The festival has changed during its three years. Besides getting bigger it's also evolved in other ways.

The Festival has been a long time supporter of her extraordinary career and she has been a wonderful partner for us in building this Festival and organization.

The festival had to be condensed. Usually, we have a dozen vendors. This year, there will be five to six.

The festival also helps to keep alive this music that is historically considered America's contribution to music.

I just adore him, ... He follows his heart. He must be pretty smart in business. He loves his life and that's a wonderful thing to see. So many people are the beneficiaries of his passion, his love for this music. I don't think there's another festival like this in the world.

I just bought a bunch more T-shirts, I'm delivering some stuff to sponsors, I have to distribute the few remaining programs. It's nothing too big. But it's not like you get to forget the festival for two days.

I have picked a Chinese film at a Tibetan film festival purely for the breathtaking special effects and not for any political reason.

I'm absolutely stunned by the response to the festival's decision to go annual, ... I didn't expect that we'd come close to breaking last year's record of 1,967 submissions, more than any other animation festival in the world.

In light of the great financial challenges of presenting the 2006 festival on the grand scale everyone is accustomed to, we simply could not have produced Jazz Fest without... Shell, who becomes the festival's first-ever presenting sponsor.

I know they're interested in putting their name out there in a bigger way and they thought the affiliation with the festival was a good way to do that.

I'm looking forward to seeing how things really are going to expand. The jazz festival was competing with Arts, Beats & Eats in Pontiac, and losing some audience, but this ought to do it.

In 1987, I had no idea who Steven Isserlis was. We met at the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina. It was originally just an Italian summer festival, but for the past 14 years, there's also been a spring festival in America.

I never played in Ozzy's band. We played a lot of festival shows together and my company did supply Ozzy's bass players with equipment.

In Dyersville, it's like our Arts & Crafts festival only it's a three-day sale. They have a museum and they close their schools and use the gymnasium for vendors.

I'm confident we are going to have a great festival under any (weather) conditions. We are not dependent on snow or cold weather to pull this festival off; snow would simply be the icing on the cake.

I'm confident that this festival will help redefine our film industry and put us on the map of world cinema.

I'm committed to providing a festival for the community. It's 47 years old.

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.

If you're not keen on crowds, it might be best to give Edinburgh a miss during festival time when it can get extremely busy.

I really wanted to keep it more as a festival versus an academic conference, more interactive and creative.

I remember, after graduating high school, I got a part in a play with the Washington Shakespeare Festival - a little part. But I remember thinking this would be a great way of making a living... to be an actor. I never really thought I'd make a lot of money at it.

I love the outdoor festival feeling. When I'm on stage, it's very gratifying to watch people on the lawns enjoying the music with a glass of wine.

I really feel bad for all of the volunteers who have worked for the past year to get all phases of the festival organized.

I quite like that people tend not to know my name. I remember being at the Cannes film festival for 'All or Nothing.' I looked very different in the film - I had a little greasy bob and no makeup. I went to a dinner after the screening, and everyone completely ignored me. I got a real buzz out of that.

I don't recall making a conscious decision to become an actor. I just remember winning a prize at a theatre festival when I was 17 and saying: 'Oh, that's what I have to do.'

I didn't expect that I would win tonight. My favorite part about the apple festival is that I get to come out and have a lot of fun and spend time with my family.

Homosexual people should be entitled to the same rights as any citizen of the People's Republic of China to freely choose their sexual partner and to get married, which, instead of being deprived and discriminated against, should receive protection. I believe that the successful presentation of a homosexuality festival will help promote public awareness of homosexuality as well as self understanding among the homosexual people themselves, and the prosperous development of homosexuality as a sub-culture in China.

I asked someone what one of the most important elements of a film festival is, and he immediately said the event's destination. Because Delray is a great city with beautiful weather and ideally located, I felt that a film festival would make a nice fit.

I attended last year's festival and was blown away.

I couldn't believe all the permits and other things I had to get in order to obtain festival approval. In the end, though, the city officials have been pretty enthusiastic about the whole thing. They can't wait to see it happen.

I contacted the people over the festival and asked them if they would like me to organize an authentic group of dancers.

He called us and said there was this gifted dancer he'd seen. We saw him and granted him a full scholarship to the festival and now he's on tour with us.

For the first time we will have an event on every single day of Festival Week.

For people who have never experienced the Kwanzaa festival in the past, I can't think of a better year to take that step forward. Upon their arrival, they will be immersed in a very positive energy, and they will feel good from the inside.

The idea of a fringe festival came along and it was a no-brainer, it seemed perfectly suited to our community and what we were trying to do.

The Green Apple Music & Arts Festival was created to raise the visibility and awareness of Earth Day. What better way to celebrate Earth Day than to bring it to every major music venue in New York?

The idea of the festival is to celebrate our culture and our relationship with the natural world and examine how this has influenced our art, music, dance and history over the years. This free festival is a way to celebrate spring, our culture and the many resources of this region.

A lot of movies at this festival were struggling to find distributors, ... This film was fortunate enough to find more than its share.

The Garden State Film Festival is here to assist them as they take their dream and turn it into a reality.

The crowds are larger every year and the city strives to make the festival better every year.

The first time I saw him perform was at the Montreal Jazz Festival in 1994 and I cried, and everyone in the club cried. I'm fascinated by his phrasing. He's been an inspiration to a lot of people.

The first record I bought was a Carl Perkins record, because I saw him at The Festival at Sandpoint, Idaho. I loved Elvis and I found out that he wrote 'Blue Suede Shoes'... so connecting that experience of going to see him play was pretty awesome. That's when I realised I wanted to play guitar.

The City Council started preparations for the festival in September of 2005. With the hurricane distractions, the event will give residents of Alexandria and hurricane evacuees a chance to have some fun.

The last time I went to a festival without a hat, two things happened. One: I got sunstroke. Secondly, I had to buy what can only be described as a Jamiroquai hat, which was sartorially incorrect - I'm saying that as a Jamiroquai fan. That was a disaster. I looked like a small clown.

The main reason for the festival has little to do with marijuana itself. It's more about offering an awesome festival for students. It's part entertainment, but it's also about social justice. You may not know it's about marijuana unless you see some of the propaganda around at the booths.

The Jazz Festival adds a little more diversity to the area. The artists who are performing are groups that people from central Wisconsin won't usually get a chance to see. You would have to go to a larger city to see these national acts.

He said, 'I've never seen a festival where the whole nation gets behind an event. The Cup astonishes'. We are still thinking the same thing.