History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.
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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.
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Sometimes, for example, we assume the people hearing us don't know anything. I've read a commentator saying that the new Jazz ... OK, we got that part, move on.
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