Ken Burns Quotes

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

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• The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • True
  • Words
  • Moral

• I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Time
  • Music
  • Country

• The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • People
  • Great
  • Country

• I'm not really a fan of Valentine's Day. I think it can be romantic doing nothing on Valentine's Day. It's more romantic than being given a big bunch of flowers that everyone else is doing.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Day
  • Romantic
  • Flowers

• I love to look back, but I don't want my music to be nostalgic. I want it to have the same vibrancy that the music I love had when it came out. I'm trying to get that electricity.

  

  Imelda May
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Love

• Is it possible that there are no coincidences?

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Possible
  • Coincidences

• For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Time
  • Work
  • Different

• For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Black
  • Feel
  • Humor

• Here's how I work: It's 2013, and most marketers are operating like it's 2009. I'm always trying to market like it's 2015, but not like it's 2020. A lot of my contemporaries who understand where the world is going, go too far out, and aren't practical. I have always prided myself on being visionary, with a heavy practicality.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • World
  • Work
  • Trying

• My parents immigrated from Italy and spent 40 days and 40 stinking nights on a boat so we didn't have to eat things like gizzards.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Parents
  • Boat
  • Italy

• As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Remember
  • Forever
  • I Can

• What makes Mom the best is that she never put any expectations too high on the kids. She just wanted us to be doing the things that made us happy, as long as we were working hard, but we never had to live up to something.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Kids
  • Happy
  • Mom

• I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Trying
  • Myself
  • Accomplish

• I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Hands
  • Two
  • Give

• It's always a wake-up call to get beaten.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Up
  • Always
  • Call

• Christine Bass was my high school music teacher. She took a program on its last legs and within a few years turned into one of the best programs in the country. Our high school dominated national choir competitions all through her 20-plus year tenure.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Music
  • Country
  • School

• Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.

  

  Harold Larwood
  • Game
  • Me
  • Dark

• I try to get over to Iraq and Afghanistan as much as I can.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Try
  • I Can
  • Afghanistan

• ISIS is on the offense, with the ability to attack at will, anyplace, anytime.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Ability
  • Will
  • Attack

• The same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • People
  • Different
  • Today

• I've never asked for special treatment along the way. And I'm never going to hide the fact that I'm a girl, ever. That's obvious, isn't it?

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Girl
  • Never
  • Special

• To get our economy back on track and keep it functioning properly without the problems of our financial institutions, we need reasonable regulations that will protect Main Street while at the same time allow Wall Street to do what it does best - make money for American investors.

  

  Marsha Blackburn
  • Time
  • Money
  • American

• China and India played a much larger role than they did before in providing these funds for the poorest countries.

  

  Jim Yong Kim

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

  

  Ken Burns
  • Control