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"I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects."

"I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects."

John Burns, English Activist

Experience, Future, Ideals, Light

31

"I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?"

"I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?"

John Burns, English Activist

Events, Will

37

"I don't want boys to use their pencils for improper writing."

"I don't want boys to use their pencils for improper writing."

John Burns, English Activist

Boys, Want, Writing

47

"I must firmly adhere to the views I have held and practice, that Socialism to succeed must be practical, tolerant, cohesive and consciously compromising with Progressive forces running, if not so far, in parallel lines towards its own goal."

"I must firmly adhere to the views I have held and practice, that Socialism to succeed must be practical, tolerant, cohesive and consciously compromising with Progressive forces running, if not so far, in parallel lines towards its own goal."

John Burns, English Activist

Goal, Practice, Running, Socialism

35

"I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance."

"I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance."

John Burns, English Activist

Lifestyle, Cleanliness, Mind, Temperance

47

"For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way."

"For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way."

John Burns, English Activist

Time, Action, Events

40

"I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves."

"I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves."

John Burns, English Activist

Power, Sympathy, Desire, Help

39

"Don't hustle old people."

John Burns, English Activist

People, Old

41

"Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it."

"Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it."

John Burns, English Activist

Effort, Poverty

45

"Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress."

"Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress."

John Burns, English Activist

Man, Men, Progress

33

"My duty is clear and at all costs will be done."

"My duty is clear and at all costs will be done."

John Burns, English Activist

Duty, Will

41

"The Gentlemen of England serve under the greatest cad in Europe."

"The Gentlemen of England serve under the greatest cad in Europe."

John Burns, English Activist

Authority, Engleurope, Gentlemen

43

"The men who made the war were profuse in their praises of the man who kicked the P.M. out of his office and now degrades by his disloyal, dishonest and lying presence the greatest office in the State."

"The men who made the war were profuse in their praises of the man who kicked the P.M. out of his office and now degrades by his disloyal, dishonest and lying presence the greatest office in the State."

John Burns, English Activist

Man, Men, War, Lying

40

"The Thames is liquid history."

John Burns, English Activist

History,

38

"Why four great powers should fight over Serbia no fellow can understand."

"Why four great powers should fight over Serbia no fellow can understand."

John Burns, English Activist

Fight,

42

"You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters."

"You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters."

John Burns, English Activist

Authority, Manners, Morals, Want

36

"I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come."

"I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come."

John Burns, English Activist

Politics, Socialism

38

"I am depressed rather at the wave of brutality sweeping over the country."

"I am depressed rather at the wave of brutality sweeping over the country."

John Burns, English Activist

Nation, Country

40

"I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now."

"I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now."

Ken Burns, American Director

History, Now

38

"The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts."

"The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts."

Ken Burns, American Director

Genius, Country, Jazz

39

"The stories from 1975 on are not finished and there is no resolve. I could spend 50 hours on the last 25 years of jazz and still not do it justice."

"The stories from 1975 on are not finished and there is no resolve. I could spend 50 hours on the last 25 years of jazz and still not do it justice."

Ken Burns, American Director

Lifestyle, Jazz, Justice, Years

33

"The way I work, the interview never becomes larger than the person being interviewed."

"The way I work, the interview never becomes larger than the person being interviewed."

Ken Burns, American Director

Work, Being

37

"To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain."

"To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain."

Ken Burns, American Director

Music, Artist, Choice, Compromise

39

"We're having a hard time understanding where jazz is going. What happened to jazz?"

"We're having a hard time understanding where jazz is going. What happened to jazz?"

Ken Burns, American Director

Time, Jazz, Understanding

29

"When you are editing, the final master is Aristotle and his poetics. You might have a terrific episode, but if people are falling out because there are just too many elements in it, you have to begin to get rid of things."

"When you are editing, the final master is Aristotle and his poetics. You might have a terrific episode, but if people are falling out because there are just too many elements in it, you have to begin to get rid of things."

Ken Burns, American Director

People,

36

"Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics."

"Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics."

Ken Burns, American Director

Music, Physics

41

"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."

"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, American Director

Music, Content, Film

37

"I read cover to cover every jazz publication that I could and in the New York Times, every single day reading their jazz reviews even though I didn't put them in the films. I wanted to know what is going on."

"I read cover to cover every jazz publication that I could and in the New York Times, every single day reading their jazz reviews even though I didn't put them in the films. I wanted to know what is going on."

Ken Burns, American Director

Lifestyle, Day, Jazz, Reading

34

"I never, ever want to apologize for a film. If it's bad I'll say it's my fault. And that's what I can say so far in all the films that I've done, that if you don't like it, it's entirely my fault."

"I never, ever want to apologize for a film. If it's bad I'll say it's my fault. And that's what I can say so far in all the films that I've done, that if you don't like it, it's entirely my fault."

Ken Burns, American Director

Mistake, Fault, Film, Want

40

"I have made all my films for my children with the exception of my first film because my oldest daughter wasn't born when I was making the film about the Brooklyn Bridge."

"I have made all my films for my children with the exception of my first film because my oldest daughter wasn't born when I was making the film about the Brooklyn Bridge."

Ken Burns, American Director

Family, Daughter, Children, Film, First

31

"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."

"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, American Director

People, Democracy, Film, Future

40

"I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head."

"I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head."

Ken Burns, American Director

Film,

35

"When a documentary filmmaker, working in the style that I do, suggests that there has been a shooting ratio of 40 hours to every one hour of finished film, that doesn't mean that the other 39 are bad."

"When a documentary filmmaker, working in the style that I do, suggests that there has been a shooting ratio of 40 hours to every one hour of finished film, that doesn't mean that the other 39 are bad."

Ken Burns, American Director

Film, Style

33

"I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active disengagement."

"I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active disengagement."

Ken Burns, American Director

Life, Fear, Choices, Cynicism

46

"You know, you meet some people, and do a lot of interviews, and you come across a Buck O'Neill and you know you are going to know him for the rest of your life. The same thing happened with Curt Flood."

"You know, you meet some people, and do a lot of interviews, and you come across a Buck O'Neill and you know you are going to know him for the rest of your life. The same thing happened with Curt Flood."

Ken Burns, American Director

Life, People, Rest

36

"I am passionately interested in understanding how my country works. And if you want to know about this thing called the United States of America you have to know about the Civil War."

"I am passionately interested in understanding how my country works. And if you want to know about this thing called the United States of America you have to know about the Civil War."

Ken Burns, American Director

War, America, Country, States

39

"You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you get that triangulation is through time."

"You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you get that triangulation is through time."

Ken Burns, American Director

Time,

37

"I enjoy total creative control right now. Nobody tells me to make it longer, shorter, better, sexier, more violent, whatever."

"I enjoy total creative control right now. Nobody tells me to make it longer, shorter, better, sexier, more violent, whatever."

Ken Burns, American Director

Control, Now, Right

35

"Wynton told us that Miles sold out, just wanted to make more money, just wanted to sell more records. I don't believe that Miles sold out but I'm not in a position to say."

"Wynton told us that Miles sold out, just wanted to make more money, just wanted to sell more records. I don't believe that Miles sold out but I'm not in a position to say."

Ken Burns, American Director

Money,

28

"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."

"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, American Director

History, Learning, Living, Present

34

"I think the problem with a lot of the fusion music is that it's extremely predictable, it's a rock rhythm and the solos all play the same stuff and they play it over and over again and there's a certain musical virtuosity involved in it."

"I think the problem with a lot of the fusion music is that it's extremely predictable, it's a rock rhythm and the solos all play the same stuff and they play it over and over again and there's a certain musical virtuosity involved in it."

Ken Burns, American Director

Music, Play

35

"One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes."

"One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes."

Ken Burns, American Director

Focus, Heroes

33

"I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live photography, the right music and interviews with people, and it becomes a style."

"I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live photography, the right music and interviews with people, and it becomes a style."

Ken Burns, American Director

Music, Work, People, Complexity

41

"In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans?"

"In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans?"

Ken Burns, American Director

Identity, Americans, Film, Sense

32

"In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel."

"In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel."

Ken Burns, American Director

Music, Emotions, End

37

"Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America."

"Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America."

Ken Burns, American Director

Society, America, Jazz

40

"Like a layer on a pearl, you can't specifically identify the irritant, the moment of the irritant, but at the end of the day, you know you have a pearl."

"Like a layer on a pearl, you can't specifically identify the irritant, the moment of the irritant, but at the end of the day, you know you have a pearl."

Ken Burns, American Director

Identity, Day, End

35

"You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches."

"You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches."

Ken Burns, American Director

Work, Blind, Years

34

"I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can't work on a film for six years without being your own toughest critic. So you can't really be distracted by the expectations based on your previous performance."

"I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can't work on a film for six years without being your own toughest critic. So you can't really be distracted by the expectations based on your previous performance."

Ken Burns, American Director

Work, Performance, Being, Expectations

38

"A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm."

"A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm."

Ken Burns, American Director

Lifestyle, Jazz

38

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