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.
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History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.Ken Burns
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.
Ken Burns
I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head.
Ken Burns
I think the problem with a lot of the fusion music is that it's extremely predictable, it's a rock rhythm and the solos all play the same stuff and they play it over and over again and there's a certain musical virtuosity involved in it.
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The flame is not out, but it is flickering.
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When you are editing, the final master is Aristotle and his poetics. You might have a terrific episode, but if people are falling out because there are just too many elements in it, you have to begin to get rid of things.
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