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

Genius, Country, Jazz

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

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"When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going."

Garry Marshall, American Actor

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"As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in stocks is a very easy and safe and that you're a financial genius."

Ron Chernow, American Author

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"I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?"

Charles de Lint, Canadian Writer

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"Genius is childhood recalled at will."

Charles Baudelaire, French Poet

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"Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them."

Joseph Joubert, French Writer

Genius, Labor

"Genius is nothing but continued attention."

Claude Adrien Helvetius, French Philosopher

Genius, Attention, Nothing

"An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius."

Billy Wilder, American Director

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"I am the farthest thing from a computer genius."

Jonathan Brandis, American Actor

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"Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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Explore more quotes by Ken Burns

"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."

Focus, Heroes

"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."

Movies, Truth, Drama, Hollywood

"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, Americans, Film, Sense

"Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being."

History, Impression, Survival, Being

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

Film,

"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."

Money,

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

Control, Now, Right

"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."

Film, Style

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

Work, Blind, Years

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

Time, Jazz, Understanding