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.
BILL CONDONWhen 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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Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
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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.
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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.
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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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But the imposition of morality onto science, – where it does not belong – has become rampant in recent years.
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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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Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
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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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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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We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
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I’m a horrible public speaker.
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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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In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
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I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
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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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