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Sometimes words just don’t get you there… don’t let you say all the stuff from deep in your heart, stuff that no dictionary has a name for.

Bill Condon

That day I think we really saw each other for the first time. I mean, saw beyond the bag of bones on the outside. You take away her pretty and my plain and what you get underneath is about the same: a couple of lost girls looking to be found.
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Couple Girl Mean
I had a couple of movies that I was passionately involved with that I could never get made. ‘Richard Pryor,’ I wrote for – gosh – over a year. That was close to getting made for two-and-a-half years after that.
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Couple Two Years
A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.
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Character Scientist Unlikely
First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids.
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Country Knowing People
We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
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Crowds Kind Whales
When it comes to two of the big social earthquakes in the last fifty years – which are the gay movement and the women’s movement – I think there is a direct line from Kinsey to those.
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Gay Movement Thinking Women Years
Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
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Absolutely Everything Kinsey
From its inception by Michael Bennett, ‘Dreamgirls’ has always been an epic story with an ensemble cast. I didn’t change that. The screen version remains, really, a group story.
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Ensemble Epic Groups Screenshots
You’ve got friends and family. That’s how we get by. We talk and share and eat cake and giggle in the dark, even when we’re scared – no, especially when we’re scared.
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Family Friend Scared Shared
Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
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Feelings Moments Persecution
There’s nothing quite as good as folding up into a book and shutting the world outside.If I pick the right one I can be beautiful, or fall in love, or live happily ever after. Maybe even all three.
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Beautiful Book Falling Love
So I never thought of anything as making fun of it, but kind of reveling in the melodrama of it. It’s a melodrama.
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Anything Making Melodrama Reveling
Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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Homosexuals Kicks People
Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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Feet Leader Men
In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
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Black Hollywood Maid
You don’t really want to see him at home, or all those things you can do in the movie.
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Home Movies Things

Sometimes words just don’t get you there… don’t let you say all the stuff from deep in your heart, stuff that no dictionary has a name for.

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