Quote by Ken Burns
You can learn as much about the history from reading about the pre

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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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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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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Future
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Since its founding in 1854, Penn State has proven to be a leading institution of higher learning. – Tim Holden

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You don’t understand anything until you learn it more than one way. – Marvin Minsky

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Learning

Id like to be more patient! I just want everything now. Ive tried to meditate, but its really hard for me to stay still. Id like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I cant shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key. – Ellen DeGeneres

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Learning

What society doesnt realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they dont now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared. – Doris Lessing

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Learning

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Everything comes if a man will only wait. – Benjamin Disraeli

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There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream. – Author Unknown

But the place which you have selected for your camp, though never so rough and grim, begins at once to have its attractions, and becomes a very centre of civilization to you: “Home is home, be it never so homely.” – Henry David Thoreau

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With Ricky Gervais, its all shades of wrong, its my kind of humor. – Emily Blunt

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