Bill Condon Quotes
When it comes to two of the big social earthquakes in the last fifty years - which are the gay movement and the women's movement - I think there is a direct line from Kinsey to those.
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It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
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Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.
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My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as a writer. It forced me to draw some conclusions that were my own.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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I think every teenager feels like a Martian in something, whether it's in their family, I think, or in their school. I think every teenager, every human being has a sense that they don't belong somewhere.
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If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.
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Save for minor ailments and accident, my battalion is practically immune from sickness; colds come and go as a matter of course, sprains and cuts claim momentary attention, but otherwise the health of the battalion is perfect.
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The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
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You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!
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I feel that I communicate best when I am not deliberately being linear. Along this same line, I feel some of the best sermons I've ever heard were in the theatre rather than the pulpit - as, for example, in the Theatre of the Absurd.
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Is it the right thing to burn Qurans? Legally? Can pastor burn Quran tomorrow? People accept legally it is right. But is it the right thing to do? No.
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When I was in my late 30s, I lit a figure on fire on Baker Beach in San Francisco. It was me, a friend, and maybe eight people, tops. There wasn't any premeditation to it at all. It was really just a product of San Franciscan bohemian milieu.
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There's no one on this earth taken less seriously in a leadership context than a young woman - everything is against you.
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The core of my personality consists of many selves.
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At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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The best way for women to get into cycling is to go out in a group, to feel like you're part of it.
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Before Obamacare, only 12% of individual insurance plans covered maternity plans. Even without that important benefit, women were charged up to 48% more than men for the same benefit package.
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I want to keep playing strong female roles. I don't mean superheroes, but women who are really alive.
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Tomorrow could not get better if one failed to survive today.
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When it comes to two of the big social earthquakes in the last fifty years - which are the gay movement and the women's movement - I think there is a direct line from Kinsey to those.
