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I think that finding a way into somebody’s life that’s sort of off from a side angle can tell you more about that person than a greatest hits approach.

Bill Condon

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
But the imposition of morality onto science, – where it does not belong – has become rampant in recent years.
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Impose Morality Years
We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
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Crowds Kind Whales
Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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Feet Leader Men
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
Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
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Absolutely Everything Kinsey
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
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
I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
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Fun Thinking Writing
I wanted to make connections between Whale’s past and present.
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Connection Past Whales
I’m a horrible public speaker.
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Horrible Public Speakers
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
No piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.
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Dues Pieces Writing
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

I think that finding a way into somebody’s life that’s sort of off from a side angle can tell you more about that person than a greatest hits approach.

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