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 had hoped to get one or two of them. They all turned us down.
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There's an urgent need to stop reacting to each immediate vexing issue in isolation. Such response often creates unanticipated second-order effects and even more problems for us.
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The movie business is not about the money. Of course, you need money to make the movie. If you have a small budget, adapt yourself. Having $200 million dollars doesn't ensure that you're definitely going to make a good movie. There's so many examples that prove that.
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Busy people are never busybodies.
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That's when I got my guard down. He was okay with going to my office and meeting people and being seen. That's how he got me.
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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.
