Ken Burns Quotes

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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• I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Work
  • Long
  • Nature

• Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Up
  • America
  • Light

• It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • You
  • Audience
  • Crying

• I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Up
  • Sports

• I like to build things. I like to do things.

  

  Walter Chrysler
  • Like
  • Things
  • Build

• I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.

  

  B. B. King
  • Music
  • Black
  • Said

• It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Thoughts
  • Choice
  • Express

• I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups moonlight as support groups for the kind of people who think that writing is therapeutic. Writing is the exact opposite of therapy.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Life
  • Writing

• My management team are all women. Most of the people at labels I liaise with are all women. It's pretty much all women all the time.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Time
  • Women

• I represent what I think is a traditional Republican... a limited government, fiscal responsibility, strong national defense, individual freedom and liberty.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Strong
  • Freedom
  • Government

• Starting on February 1, 2010, and running through until May 30, I will be Toronto Public Library's Writer in Residence, working out of the Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Speculation at the Lillian H. Smith branch at College and Spadina.

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • May
  • Science
  • Running

• I think love is the through line and it's universal and it doesn't matter what period of time, time or place, or people, that's something we all connect to. That's the thin thread that I think keeps it altogether.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • People
  • Time
  • Think

• A lot of people have culturally induced ethical blindness, but they can be cured!

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • People
  • Ethical
  • Blindness

• Oh yes, as a matter of fact it is quite interesting that exercises can be conducted which demonstrate conclusively that there are memories which exist prior to this life.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Life
  • Interesting
  • Memories

• Not every brand needs to be on every social platform. Brands should have a very strategic objective, whether it's marketing or commercial. The biggest mistake a brand can make is to be on a social platform without a plan or the resources to manage it.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Mistake
  • Marketing
  • Brand

• I try to pack light with a folding leather suit bag. Anything more than five days, I need to check in my luggage. What takes the most space? Chef jackets, aprons and tools.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Light
  • Space
  • Chef

• If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • Good
  • Leadership
  • Employees

• The things that people won't totally accept come in all shapes and sizes and forms, and I can relate to that in my own youth.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Youth
  • Shapes

• But I'm glad I'm not one of those actresses who is just so ready to open up for everyone.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Up
  • Ready
  • Actresses

• Historians of the sentimental school have sometimes regretted that royalty became absolute, while at the same time rejoicing that it installed plebeians in office. They deceive themselves. Royalty exalted plebeians just because it aimed at becoming absolute; it became absolute because it had exalted plebeians.

  

  Bertrand de Jouvenel
  • Royalty
  • Historians
  • Plebeians

• The discrimination is not made openly, but a Negro who goes to such places is informed that there are no accommodations, or he is overlooked and otherwise slighted, so that he does not come again.

  

  Ray Stannard Baker
  • Discrimination
  • Informed
  • Overlooked

• Prejudices and preferences exist and will continue to. When you learn how to market yourself, you become less of a victim.

  

  Lavrenti Lopes

• You must always work not just within but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten, then handle only five. In that way the ones you do handle, you handle with more ease, more mastery, and you create a feeling of strength in reserve.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Work
  • Feeling
  • Mean

• 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