Bill Condon Quotes
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It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?
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It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.
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I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.
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Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
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Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale.
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My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.
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The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
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Yoga may look peaceful and calming, but even Arnold Schwarzenegger would have trouble breathing after twenty 'surya namaskars' in a row.
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Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
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The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.
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Lupe Fiasco is kinda cool. I like him a lot.
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Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
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It seems to me that one of the things that happened with a lot of literary fiction in the 1980s and 1990s was that it became very concerned with the academy and less with how people live their lives. We got to a point where the crime novel stepped into the breach. It was also a time when the crime novel stopped being so metropolitan.
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Being a celebrity is a business.
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I, myself, I am not interested in reality television; just me, myself, speaking.
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Rap is always evolving. It's easy for the old school to hate the new school, but it's a music that got a little stifled I think, by the Internet a little bit.
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I'm a closet outdoorsy athletic enthusiast, and I would love to do a rafting and hiking trip someday and maybe sleep in a treehouse and bathe in a chilly winding river.
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You can't succeed in beating the insurgents unless you can convince the people that they can be protected.
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Parsi theater was known for melodrama.
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When you remove the risk, you remove the challenge. When you remove the challenge, you wither on the vine.
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The right wing has monopolized the AM radio airwaves.
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For a found-footage-style movie, there's a definite advantage in using unknowns, because it helps sell the illusion that it's real. A known actor would get in the way of the suspension of disbelief.
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That's one of the reasons I moved to Florida. Of course, the main reason is the weather and the training. But there's more jealousy in Switzerland because it's so little and they don't have so many athletes.
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I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
