Ken Burns Quotes
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.
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I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.'
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Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
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I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.
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My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
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As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.
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The P2P marketplace extends into other markets where individuals are monetizing underutilized assets. Lodging is one example. Instead of finding a hotel room, in the sharing economy you can rent a spare room from a local resident.
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Push-ups, sit-ups, and a strict diet of raisins. That's my plan.
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I've been pitching a show of five female stand-up comedians through the generations, from Phyllis Diller to Amy Schumer, so when I got an e-mail asking me if I would participate in the Women in Comedy Festival, I was thrilled.
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A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.
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I go to work and get to hang out with nothing but my kind of guys!
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Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
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This is magic we're talking about. It's supposed to go places science can't, defy logic, wink at technology, fill us all with the sensawunda that comes of gazing upon a fictional world and seeing something truly different from our own.
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A true nature is a gloomy monolith, sort of like that old black rotary phone that I had to sing 'Happy Birthday' to Grandpa on. But novelists, damn us, still need true natures - so we can give them to our protagonists. And so readers can vaguely predict how they'll behave when we trap them in 'situations' that they can't IM their way out of.
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No matter what, I still was gonna make music, even if it was on a small scale. Even if it was just for me.
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With thrillers, there's such a fine line between what's good and what's cheesy and corny.
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Nature has willed that man should, by himself, produce everything that goes beyond the mechanical ordering of his animal existence, and that he should partake of no other happiness or perfection than that which he himself, independently of instinct, has created by his own reason.
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There are musicians who want to make a living making music. There are listeners who want to listen to music. Complicating this relationship is a whole bunch of history: some of the music I want to listen to was made a while ago in a different economy. Some of the models of making a living making music are no longer valid but persist.
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Alan Moore's writing is almost novelistic. It's very intricate and wordy and smart.
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Music, to me, is mankind's greatest possible achievement because look at all the good it does.
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Quality has always been the overriding factor for us. But you also have to have happy people working for you.
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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.
