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History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, a

History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions. – Ken Burns

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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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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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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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There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering. – Theodore Roosevelt

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History

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up. – Henry Louis Gates

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History

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future. – Jessamyn West

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History

Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees, you have such a sense of the passage of time, of history. Its like youre touching the essence, the very substance of life. – Kim Novak

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History

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Youd think Id have been happiest in my life playing music in front of 50,000 people at Gillette Stadium. But let me tell you, its an odd feeling to feel alone in the spotlight. – Kenny Chesney

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Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak. – William Shakespeare, As You Like It

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I’ve never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful. – Author Unknown

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Ive programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And thats the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come – you know, the stories and things like that. – R. Kelly

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