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Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

Germaine Greer

I like the atmosphere of the festival.

Ann Clark

These are the kind of films that are the responsibility of a festival.

Peter Scarlet

They do it especially for the Heritage Days Festival.

Kelly Callahan

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

Phyllis Smith

I think there's no question it will help us run a more effective festival.

Jill Miller

I think it's fantastic. I think it feels like a good start to the festival.

Craig Coleman

This is the strongest array of talent we've had at the festival, and we've never been able to announce so many names so far in advance.

Jody Kielbasa

We're trying to get everyone to walk around town. That's one of the ideas behind the festival - see the arts and see the town.

Charlie Skelton

People come from all over the country to our festival. It has been wildly successful.

Joe Lee

This festival is trying to celebrate the Cajun culture and showcase it.

Jason Leonard

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

Mike Saffran

It really depends on the festival ? what programs are offered, how many people attend.

Dave Sullivan

It reminds me a lot of an old-fashioned festival.

Barbara Wilson

We're embracing that community spirit and embracing it in a festival atmosphere.

Doug Barber

This isn't the same festival of 15 years ago.

Debi Lehr

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

Peggy Jones

The festival really is a community celebration, ... It's a wonderful free event; people will learn about Escondido.

Wendy Barker

It's a full day of entertainment for the people, a way to keep the Bowie Festival alive.

Jan Simpson

It's a closing of a door to an event, but not closing of the door to working with the film festival.

Jason Bruecks

We're having belly dancers and flamenco performances throughout the festival.

Amy Turner

We want to try to merge some of the things that happen in Belfast to draw more people to the festival. If we can merge them to us, certainly we're broadening our base.

Joe Brooks

We want to make sure this festival doesn't lose that community-service feel.

Shelly King

We were hoping to make about $10,000 through the carnival and gumbo festival this year.

Vicki Scott

I really enjoy the interaction with the people who come to the festival.

Gayla Curtis

Our goals have been fairly consistent - just striving to make it the best festival as we could.

Ashley Capps

This is the third time I've brought a movie to the Toronto festival.

Curtis Hanson

It is a joy to have a cast of 19. You don't have that unless you are at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

Conrad Bishop

We are hoping to really draw from the University of Pennsylvania community for the film festival.

Andrew Preis

That way there's more to do than just the festival.

Alice Desouza

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

Sharon Gillies

It was always a music festival to us.

Ashley Capps

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

Jeff Hardin

I like to come down here and go to the race, and you can go to the festival.

Todd Martin

It's basically a two-week spring festival. And it features the season's best skiing.

Vicki Baumann

For as far back as I can remember, me, Boo Boo and Babe have dressed up to come to the festival. This is a highlight event for us each year.

Barbara King

I'm excited about the festival. This year is our biggest year yet, because this is the year we put our theater up in front of everyone.

Paul Flores

San Sebastian is a very friendly festival, ... a place where the distance between directors and the public disappears.

Mikel Olaciregui

This year is also shaping up to be a very literate and literary Festival.

Stella Pence

The best thing is that the proceeds will go to the depot museum, ... I am very excited for both the book signing and the chocolate festival.

Jill Anderson

Anyone is encouraged to participate in the festival either by creating an edible book or if someone is not creative or doesn't want to make a book, they can participate by coming and viewing the books.

Victoria Heiduschke

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

Mayor Kenneth Boswell

We're a festival that was started because of an act of war, so we have always had films and panel discussions that bring up difficult subjects.

Jane Rosenthal

We'll have a bang-up festival next year. Not that this one won't be great.

Tony Long

It's kind of a Catch-22 because the rain is good for the farmers, but our festival got canceled.

Andrea Arnold

We want to change the location to make it closer to what it should be, the bay festival.

Joe Brooks

We wanted a big name headliner to bring more people to the festival.

Katie Marks

(The festival) is a successful fund-raiser.

Stephen Brookes

This year's festival has the rock stars of writing.

William Miller

This is an opportunity to learn about the poultry business, eggs and chickens in a fun, festival type atmosphere.

Judy Tilford

The only way to add a market is to build on an existing festival.

Marco Mueller

Bumbershoot fits the personality of this city so well because people here are curious and engaged and they come to the festival to sample.

Sheila Hughes

When I got the project, it seemed to make a lot of sense to put the festival on Gold Avenue.

Amy Turner

Part of the fun of going to a film festival is the serendipity of it.

Nancy Buirski

It's extremely colorful, and I think it represents the best and brightest of the River Festival.

Janet Wright

Locally we've worked with close to 30 outreach programs. There has been a concerted effort from the beginning to develop this as a family festival.

Frank Yohannan

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

Dave Nelson

It's not as busy as I had hoped, but then every festival goes through tough times.

Bob Gould

That's generous, but that would be wonderful if we do. If 20,000 people attend the festival, my estimate would be closer to 2,000 to 3,000 signatures.

Terry Phillips

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

Lee Sentell

The National Folk Festival is a brand-new festival every year.

Julia Olin

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

Brinda Karat

It's also a festival that is family friendly. There's always stuff for kids at the festival.

Miguel Castillo

What are some of your most fondest memories of the Yamboree festival?,

Christine Nelson

So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?

Christina Aguilera

We work hard to have the festival back every year.

Rodney Ley

I'm asking each of you to help me save this festival. We've done everything we can.

Steve Stifano

We exceeded our goal. More importantly, it created a lot of awareness for animal services and the reading festival.

Maria Brown

And then it wouldn't be opening the Toronto film festival and it wouldn't be opening around the world.

Deepa Mehta

Andy Cutler is very excited about the chance to compete at the Maymont Festival as are all of our runners.

Chris Abel

New York is a big town and has the biggest of everything, so it should not be daunted by having a huge festival.

Peter Scarlet

Other than the hot temperatures it was an excellent festival.

Peter Laponte

We're going to send her ... a couple of bottles of Seaside Festival wine so she can celebrate the birth of her child.

Tim O'sullivan

We've expanded the festival a great deal this year.

Vickie Straeffer

Every festival is new, and everyone has gotten better. We've been able to do a better job of connecting students with wonderful authors from all over.

Fran Johnson

The bottom line is they're doing it, and that's the bottom line of this festival.

Scott Alboum

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.

Julia Olin

We figured since there was a festival downtown, we'd make an appearance.

Richard Walter

Right now the festival is in… what? Four weeks?

Jennifer Cox

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

Mikel Olaciregui

There was never any thought to dropping the festival.

Dan Gray

It's a very comfortable environment. Everybody seems really accessible at South by Southwest. It's very much a filmmakers' festival.

Andrew Fraser

Our films have always received critical acclaim. This festival is an attempt to bring Assamese cinema to a larger audience here.

Jahnu Barua

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

Ray Garcia

Our cook-off runs in conjunction with our Lewis & Clark Festival. When they entered South Dakota, this is where they feasted on their first bison.

Diane Norton

We had the Buddy Holly festival several times in the 90s.

Don Caldwell

We've got a lot of fun things going on in 14 communities along the road, each one of them having their own little festival. There's a lot to see and do.

Jerry Roll

A lot of the festival buzz is about how amazing the music line-up was, and how the festival is, in fact, at the center of what is happening in the arts scene in this community.

Rob Mcskimming

The Sugar Water Festival.

Erykah Badu

It was a very good festival. The parade was huge.

Edith Volmar

We had yard sales, we asked for donations. We did a kite festival.

Zach Link