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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.

Bill Condon

In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
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Black Hollywood Maid
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
I’m a horrible public speaker.
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Horrible Public Speakers
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’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
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
A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.
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Character Scientist Unlikely
Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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Homosexuals Kicks People
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
Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
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People Problem Trying
Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
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Feelings Moments Persecution
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 knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
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Crowds Kind Whales
I do think that’s so much a part of what being a director is – in working with actors – to really try and be sensitive to what each actor needs to get to where he wants to be.
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Director Thinking Trying
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 thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
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Catholic Church Way

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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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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