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Ken Burns

"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?"

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Donna Grant

"You are not in the kingdom by accident."

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Donna Grant

"Let's be private... I am different character and DeYtH is different as character."

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Donna Grant

"I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself, maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it."

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Donna Grant

"You are the only one of your kind."

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Donna Grant

"If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that registered earthquakes ten thousand miles away."

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Donna Grant

"We have worth because we were created in the image and likeness of God."

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Donna Grant

"Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories."

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Donna Grant

"You must wear clothes which suits your own soul, not your own society! What you wish to do is much more important than what your society wants you to do!"

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Donna Grant

"Names have power."

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Donna Grant

"You are the architect of your future, you decide whether you build a hut or a palace."

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Ken Burns
"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."

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Ken Burns
"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?"

Identity

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Ken Burns
"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."

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Ken Burns
"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."

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Ken Burns
"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."

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Ken Burns
"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."

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Ken Burns
"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."

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Ken Burns
"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."

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

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

Genius

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