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So we were doing this scene, and the kids get 20 minutes a day, um, so, all I had to do was pick him up out of the incubator and take him out, and that was the whole shot. ↗

— Steve Burton

#doing #get #had #him #i

In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans? ↗

— Ken Burns

#asked #film #i #made #over

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

— Ken Burns

#accurate #america #century #curiously #jazz

The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts. ↗

— Ken Burns

#contribution #country #genius #great #improvisation

Wynton told us that Miles sold out, just wanted to make more money, just wanted to sell more records. I don't believe that Miles sold out but I'm not in a position to say. ↗

— Ken Burns

#i #just #make #miles #money

You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches. ↗

— Ken Burns

#blind #myriad #other #six #something

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#dew #evanescent #flash #human #human life

Mitchell Sanders was right. For the common soldier, at least, war has the feel-the spiritual texture-of a great ghostly fog, thick and permanent. There is no clarity. Everything swirls. The old rules are no longer binding, the old truths no longer true. Right spills over into wrong. Order blends into chaos, love into hate, ugliness into beauty, law into anarchy, civility into savagery. The vapors suck you in. You can't tell where you are, or why you're there, and the only certainty is overwhelming ambiguity. ↗

— Tim O'Brien

#war #beauty

America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

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I'm not a politician. I'm not a lawyer. I'm just a country boy. ↗

— Max Burns

#country #country boy #i #just #lawyer