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"Some days you live in pajamas, and your hair kind-of has that Albert Einstein look."
"My passionate leisure pursuit are reading, wondering and writing."
"If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure."
"A mask you ask? Optional I find!Masks lend appeal of a mysterious kind."
"Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience."
"Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore."
"Live with style and passion, don't seek the permission of others."
Explore more quotes by Ken Burns
"History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions."
"Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being."
"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 don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts."
"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."
"You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you get that triangulation is through time."
"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."
"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."
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