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I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to s

I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see what it tells us about who we are as a people. I think that jazz is a spectacularly accurate model of democracy and a kind of look into our redemptive future possibilities. – Ken Burns

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You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living. – Ken Burns

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Learning
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I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films. – Ken Burns

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movies
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I record all of my music with authentic instruments in a studio before we start editing, doing many, many versions. The music shapes the film as we edit so it has an organic relationship to the content. – Ken Burns

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relationship
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It looks like the futures really bright. – Michael P. Anderson

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I never have plans for the future as you never know how things will turn out. – Nigella Lawson

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A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future. – Marian Wright Edelman

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A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs. – Bernard Baruch

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Back then I didnt think a woman like that, or a relationship like that, could exist with complete freedom and no jealousy or possessiveness. I thought it sounded too good to be true and I was certainly convinced it wasnt the life for me! – Sylvia Kristel

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I hate those e-books. They can not be the future… they may well be… I will be dead. – Maurice Sendak

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