Ken Burns Quotes
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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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.
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We always regret that we did not ask our parents more, really get to know them while they were alive.
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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It's hard for me to talk about Dom right now because I am Dom right now. So it's a really strange exercise to try to reflect on something that I am at the moment. But I guarantee you that when I'm done with the movie and you ask me that question, I'll be able to give you something insightful.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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I've always been a person who's been true to myself and true to others, and I'm not afraid to be honest.
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The guitar for me is a translation device. It's not a goal. And in some ways, jazz isn't a destination for me. For me, jazz is a vehicle that takes you to the true destination - a musical one that describes all kinds of stuff about the human condition and the way music works.
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My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.
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All of us grow.
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Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
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The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
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I do just genuinely believe Chris Hemsworth is a 6'3, more muscular version of me. And more handsome, but I try.
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I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.
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The 'modern' air-traffic-control system, and the FAA itself, was created in the aftermath of one of the most dramatic commercial midair bashes, way back in 1956.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
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If anything, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US.
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I think in any writing you're paying attention to detail.
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What I described in 'Another Life' - about being on the hill and feeling the sort of dissolution that happened - is a frequent experience in a younger writer.
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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.
