Ken Burns Quotes
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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I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels.
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.
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Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan understand that government does not create jobs. Entrepreneurs do.
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In my experience, great reviews almost always ensure no sales.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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Winston Cup and the Busch Series are two totally different leagues. You get put in different situations.
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Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.
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Blinking is some way of tabulating - a kind of carriage return, click, or save to disk - that helps the process of 'Okay, now change the subject.' Every time you move your eyes, there's an interruption in the visual field - you go momentarily blind when your eyeballs are moving.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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I'm proud to be here as a man that has played first base more than anybody in the game of baseball.
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As we women know, there are so many other hurdles that we have to cross that I would love it if we could stop having the race conversation so that we can get women further on. You know, a female president now that we have an African American president. Maybe we can get an Asian female, a gay person?
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America stands for individual liberty, but that means an ordered liberty.
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We don't even think about it out there. We just focus on doing our job. The ball is the same baseball, the game is the same game. We're going to just keep trying to do our jobs.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.
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If one of my colleagues wants to block a bill, they should stand up in front of the American people and explain why.
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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.
