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Ken Burns Quotes

A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Jazz Rhythm Beat Dynamic Changing

I was a dogged reporter.

Reporter Dogged

Perfection would be something that you see in 'Architectural Digest.'

Perfection You See Something Would

I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.

Maynard James Keenan

Hope Trying Us Artists Would Clowns

We establish no religion in this country, nor will we ever. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave society devoid of belief.

Religion Society Corruption Country

For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.

Win Fighting Enemy Skill Battles

I had seen 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels' and I thought that was a different kind of film than I'd seen before, with that kind of editing and slick camera movements.

Thought Smoking Camera Kind Editing

It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.

Anthony Trollope

Improvement Ambition World Parent

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.

Thomas Jefferson

Man Free Safe Where Press Able

A writer's obligation is to invent: to go beyond what did happen and to look at what could have happened but didn't. Fiction writers are born liars.

Look Born Go Beyond Liars Fiction

I wouldn't say 'Frances Ha' is autobiographical, but it's definitely very personal.

Say Personal Very Autobiographical

For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.

Truth History Training Democracy

As a songwriter, oddly enough, my influences were people like Bob Dylan, The Velvet Underground, and Buddy Holly. Some psychedelic stuff, too.

People Enough Psychedelic Velvet

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