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But the imposition of morality onto science, – where it does not belong – has become rampant in recent years.

Bill Condon

In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
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Black Hollywood Maid
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
Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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Feet Leader Men
We’re still pushing it, you know. It is weird. Suddenly you wake up and it’s like, ‘God, five years have gone by.
BILL CONDON

Like Pushing Still Weird
But you really – I always think that a director has got to adapt to whatever the needs of the actor are. You know, so if you take someone like Eddie Murphy, who is not a big fan of rehearsal.
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Director Fans Thinking
For me, someone like the Eddie Murphy character doesn’t live anywhere; he lives on a stage and when he’s not on the stage he’s on a bus getting to the next stage.
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Bus Character Home
I’m a horrible public speaker.
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Horrible Public Speakers
I wanted to make connections between Whale’s past and present.
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Connection Past Whales
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
My idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out.
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Beach Country Holiday
It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors they have to live in a way that you think of nobody living anymore except for in small towns. They have such elaborate double lives.
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Actors Interesting Thinking
Above all they have always shown great respect for the fans who made these movies such a success. Now it’s time that some of that respect be returned to them.
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Made Phenomena Respect Success
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
The thing I’ve noticed about life is that it just keeps coming at you. And it can be a real bummer. What you need to remember is that you’re not alone.
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Cake Dark Real
We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
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Crowds Kind Whales
There’s no question that Whale’s movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
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Successful Whales Wonderful

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