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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My very first job was a cashier at Burger King in Tucson, Arizona. And I occasionally worked the drive-thru. I'd go wherever I was needed! My second job was at Dairy Queen. I stayed in the fast food royalty.
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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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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
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It's more difficult to write a song about having your heart ripped out of your chest while you're in love. Because it lacks honesty. And the honesty comes through in the music, it really does.
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The difference today is that, in both parties, the very extreme elements control the nomination process.
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If you're playing a character who says whatever he wants, I felt free to say whatever I wanted on set.
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I liked the thought that the book I was now holding had been held by dozens of others.
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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.
