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Ken Burns Quotes

Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: July 29, 1953

Topics

America Jazz Century 20th Century

I loved being in the theater. It was a place of enormous excitement and happiness and safety and respect and dignity. It was a place where, if you did your job, you weren't a kid - you were a full person worthy of respect from all the adults in the company.

Happiness Respect Job Safety Loved

Names were not so much dropped as thrown in a perpetual game of catch.

Game Names Catch Thrown Much Were

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

Change Truth Perfect Find True

Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system.

Today Health Sick Face Care America

Thus, during the winter of 2003 I ventured into a new arena as a professional photographer.

Winter Professional New Photographer

I am so highly skilled that when I pick up a phrase and then pick up my guitar, a form comes out almost immediately - a song - and once I start, I have to finish it.

I Am Song Start Guitar Finish Out

I keep myself to myself pretty much. I'm not someone who gallivants around town looking for attention.

Myself Looking Someone Attention Who

A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music - these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Nature Beauty Music Great Universe

Artists have really never had any representation on Capitol Hill, because it's not the nature of the artist to join together and make a unified presence. Those days kind of died in the '60s.

Nature Together Artist Kind Hill

I just don't understand the Big 12 not wanting to own Houston, Texas, which is soon to be the third-largest populous in the United States. To me, it's a no-brainer. I'm just kind of disappointed and shocked it's not an automatic.

Tilman J. Fertitta

Me Texas Kind Understand Houston

A sacrament is a visible sign of an invisible reality.

Mother Angelica

Reality Invisible Sacrament Sign

Addiction is a terrible thing.

Addiction Terrible Thing

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