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People tend to forget that the word

People tend to forget that the word “history” contains the word “story”. – 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 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 think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what were lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and its worse than fear – its active disengagement. – Ken Burns

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Radical historians now tell the story of Thanksgiving from the point of view of the turkey. – Mason Cooley

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Our liberal, New York/Washington-based media would never in a million years put Liberal Godfather Ted Kennedy on the spot about his clans bad behavior, to whose lurid history he himself has contributed so much. – Camille Paglia

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We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the mens crapper of the local bar. – Charles Bukowski

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History is written by the winners. – Alex Haley

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I shall not grow conservative with age. – Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Heaven knows, Ive exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination… now my new book is about what really happened to me… not my heroines. – Judith Krantz

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