More From Ken Burns
- "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."
- "I subscribe to William Faulkner’s’ view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now."
- "I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films."
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- "New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday."― Charles Lamb
- "The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous lie."― L. Neil Smith
- "I often buy myself presents. Sometimes I will spend $100,000 in one day in a posh boutique."― Celine Dion