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It`s a crying shame we don`t play more parks and fairs. I would love to go right to the Chamber of Commerce or whoever they are, so that we could get involved in a different way.

- Davy Jones

I lived in a tepee in the living room, which already had a cathedral ceiling being English Tudor. I dreampt a lot. I drew. I was a bit of a child prodigy and would be taken to fairs, set up my easel and do 100 portraits. Later I took commissions from the Rye Art Store and made good money until I started to feel like a plastic surgeon with all the babes requests to remove age lines. I went to NYU and was supposed to be a scenic designer but I kept sneaking into acting classes. I was studying with the great Bill Hickey in my off time, playing a delivery boy on a soap opera and doing off-off Broadway. I had to make a choice. I chose acting.

- Bud Cort
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In this country, we do a lot of hotel venues, and we do Fairs. We do joint concerts at stadiums with The Four Tops or The Temptations or Natalie Cole.

- Ben E. King

I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the work of a President is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town.

- William Howard Taft

It`s one of the biggest single-county fairs in the state of Kentucky.

- John Walton

(The lobster vendor was one of two new seafood businesses that set up shop on the roadway between the Coliseum and horse barn and the fence adjacent to State Fair Boulevard, facing the additional challenge of attracting customers in a location that had no vendors at previous State Fairs.) I heard there was nothing but horse trailers here before for years, ... We`ve got two obstacles to overcome. The traffic pattern is not ingrained, the way they walk around here. I hope they want to come and explore the new area and see.

- James Wright