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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Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
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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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I feel like my career has always been a series of collisions and accidents. Being in the right place at the right time. Having the right haircut. It's so mad to think that it happened in the way that it happened.
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Competing at full price is the way we like to do business, but we cannot ignore the promotional environment.
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Religion must be a punishment, because nobody gets religion who does not have a bad conscience.
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I did 'Bridge to Terabithia' when I was around 6 years old, but for my first movie, I was 5.
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Have you asked you?
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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.
