Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.
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I am passionately interested in understanding how my country works. And if you want to know about this thing called the United States of America you have to know about the Civil War.Ken Burns
You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living.
Ken Burns
The stories from 1975 on are not finished and there is no resolve. I could spend 50 hours on the last 25 years of jazz and still not do it justice.
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Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.
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I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can't work on a film for six years without being your own toughest critic. So you can't really be distracted by the expectations based on your previous performance.
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History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.
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