Bill Condon Quotes
From its inception by Michael Bennett, 'Dreamgirls' has always been an epic story with an ensemble cast. I didn't change that. The screen version remains, really, a group story.
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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
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I think everyone in the heptathlon is improving together, so it is a very hard event to compete in.
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I think that a lot of us, whether we are religious or not - there are no words to express some things except religious words. For instance, 'soul.'
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I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.
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I do love to capture beauty in this world. And photos can last the test of time.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.
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My left brain has gradually 'eaten' the right-brain capabilities away.
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My life is my message.
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Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could be, much, much better than they are.
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I do not... look very feminine. Diana, Princess of Wales is feminine... I am... femi-none.
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Some people call me scrappy - and that's because I am.
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False praise is worse than no praise.
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When you get to play pretend for a living and do it with really talented people, it's really fun to go to the office!
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When you produce an album, you're dealing with it theatrically. It has to have a structure, and the inner response to that is that the ear loves it.
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On Friday night, if you want to go out on a date with your wife or your girlfriend, nothing on Netflix competes with that, right? Because you're getting out; that's what you're doing. If you don't want to put your shoes on, nothing in the cinema competes with the worst thing on Netflix.
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We're so afraid of death in our culture, but I think if we understand it better, then we'll appreciate the life we have more.
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If there's a particular problem that Perl is trying to solve, it's the basic fact that all programming languages suck. Sort of the concept of original sin, applied to programming languages.
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We still have too many Americans who give in to their fears of those who are different from them. Not so long ago, swastikas were painted on the doors of some African-American members of our Special Forces at Ft. Bragg. They are special forces. They do not deserve to have swastikas on their doors.
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My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.
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I have very old-fashioned tastes.
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If you think about it, the printing press allowed everyone to print books - it democratised the printing of information. For the first time, we could all print.
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You have got to get the strategy right; you have to get the operations right - lined up from R&D out to the field.
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From its inception by Michael Bennett, 'Dreamgirls' has always been an epic story with an ensemble cast. I didn't change that. The screen version remains, really, a group story.
