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• I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not…
• Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.
• I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head.
• People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story".
• History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.
• The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.
• We're having a hard time understanding where jazz is going. What happened to jazz?
• I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition…

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