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

-- Ken Burns

#Years Quotes #Six Quotes #Blind Quotes

“Television is just like making a hole in the wall. All kinds of stuff comes in, on the screen, that we would never allow to come in through the door.”
“It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.”

Source : "Quotes of the day: Cameron Sinclair". www.cnn.com. July 11, 2008.
“We as black have to remind ourselves that we are a great people and we come from a great lineage. How can we say that we were Kings and Queens during ancient civilization but then turn around and say, 'we don't have privilege.' Who said that? What is that based on? Is that based on the white man's definition of privilege and what this system is showing us? Yes, of course.”
“Everything about life makes me lonely.”
“I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.”
“Le lecteur, lui non plus, ne voit pas les choses du dehors. Il est dans le labyrinthe aussi. The reader [as well as the main character] does not view the work from outside. He too is in the labyrinth.”

Source : 1959 Dans le labyrinthe.
“There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.”
“That's an important lesson for me, to not qualify my experience against somebody else's. My experience is the experience that I wanted to have, and have created for myself, but it doesn't make me any more deserving than anybody else - or less.”

Source : Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. February 11, 2003.

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