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.
BILL CONDONKinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
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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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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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I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
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You know he comes out of stand-up. He comes – it’s all about capturing the moment – in the moment, you know.
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Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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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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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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Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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No piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.
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Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
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Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together – that’s the most complicated thing we all face.
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In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
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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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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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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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