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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…
• History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.
• Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.
• I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and…
• 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".
• In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as…
• By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of Jazz.

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