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Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together – that’s the most complicated thing we all face.

Bill Condon

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
There were moments on the set when the depth of the cast of ‘Dreamgirls’ was almost overwhelming to me.
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Depth Moments Overwhelming
We’re still pushing it, you know. It is weird. Suddenly you wake up and it’s like, ‘God, five years have gone by.
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Like Pushing Still Weird
Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
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Catholic Church Way
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
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
Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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Feet Leader Men
Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
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Feelings Moments Persecution
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 kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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Homosexuals Kicks 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
Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
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Absolutely Everything Kinsey
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
Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
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People Problem Trying
It’s in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged.
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Events Spontaneity Television
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

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