Bill Condon quote: "Like many of you, I've always been slightly obsessed with vampires, dating back to the prime-time series 'Dark Shadows,' which I followed avidly as a kid."

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BILL CONDON

And Kinsey thought that anybody who defined themselves based on their sexual acts was limiting thems...
BILL CONDON

Actually, I loved Chucky. It's one of the strangest movies I've ever seen.
BILL CONDON

A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.
BILL CONDON

I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because people's lives don't have a dramatic shape ...
BILL CONDON

I know a little more about Kinsey than I know about sex because that is his subject not mine.
BILL CONDON

I do think that's so much a part of what being a director is - in working with actors - to really tr...
BILL CONDON

From its inception by Michael Bennett, 'Dreamgirls' has always been an epic story with an en...
BILL CONDON

When it comes to two of the big social earthquakes in the last fifty years - which are the gay movem...
BILL CONDON

Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone's sexuality is ...
BILL CONDON

Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
BILL CONDON

Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion.
BILL CONDON

Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
BILL CONDON

One of the people that became a major source was Clarence Tripp who worked with Kinsey.
BILL CONDON

Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
BILL CONDON

No, 'F/X 2' was a job. I enjoyed doing it but that was definitely a job. I wrote that, I did...
BILL CONDON

Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
BILL CONDON

Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
BILL CONDON

In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
BILL CONDON

First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican...
BILL CONDON

I think that finding a way into somebody's life that's sort of off from a side angle can tel...
BILL CONDON

It's an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.
BILL CONDON

There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
BILL CONDON

I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because people's lives don't have a dramati...
BILL CONDON

I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
BILL CONDON

It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors they have to live in a way that you ...
BILL CONDON

I'm a horrible public speaker.
BILL CONDON

I do think that's so much a part of what being a director is - in working with actors - to reall...
BILL CONDON

My idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out.
BILL CONDON

We made connections between the monsters created by war and the monsters he created, the typical out...
BILL CONDON

We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
BILL CONDON

Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
BILL CONDON

I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present.
BILL CONDON

There's nothing quite as good as folding up into a book and shutting the world outside.If I pick the...
BILL CONDON

Someday we may have as many followers as the harpsichord.
EDDIE CONDON

As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass or does it come in like honey?
EDDIE CONDON

I'm seeing a guy now who has nothing to do with films. It's so much nicer with somebody who ...
KERRY CONDON

You are starting to see well-known surfboard companies making snowboards now.
BRUCE CONDON

Surfing, like snowboarding is becoming more mainstream. It's really getting much more popular as peo...
BRUCE CONDON

Our formula is simple. We don't have additives.
BRUCE CONDON

It gets our name out there and people see it more places.
BRUCE CONDON

For our snowboard wax, it's the same logo, except it's a guy on a snowboard with a big shark bite ou...
BRUCE CONDON

Simeon's got a huge cap number [$9.2 million], so people just assume somebody's going to try to do s...
TOM CONDON

Based on what he's accomplished and on his statistics, if you compare what he's done to what some of...
TOM CONDON

[With Alex Smith and the 49ers still far from reaching a contract agreement, the team's plans for th...
TOM CONDON

It potentially could have an impact, yes.
TOM CONDON

We came within an eyelash of losing the whole crop last spring but we are sitting better right now,
TOM CONDON

There's nothing yet. We'll just have to wait and see what Dr. Andrews says after he gets a look at i...
TOM CONDON

We are starting make some adjustments. At the beginning of the season, we thought we had the right l...
EDDIE CONDON

It's hard to characterize negotiations, but there are issues that we have not agreed on. We're just ...
TOM CONDON

He wasn't going to be satisfied being on a one-year transition tender. Obviously, Minnesota made a v...
TOM CONDON

The January-February surplus was $1.3 billion wider year-on-year, which highlights the pressure on t...
TIM CONDON

We choose to take a more cautious approach - what we've elected to call this is an unusual pattern.
SUZANNE CONDON

We do a certification of suppliers to validate the product is compatible with our existing products ...
GEORGE CONDON

I know that Drew told me that, but I've had no conversations with the Chargers .
TOM CONDON

I don't know that this sets a precedent. Sometimes, a player transcends the position of a transition...
TOM CONDON

It's one of those things that's good for San Diego, good for Eli, a win all around.
TOM CONDON

I've seen some terrible, horrific scarring caused by the infections. The potential for harm is very ...
DELLA CONDON

The other key factor is that this is a global program. We have a worldwide relationship with AMD, so...
GEORGE CONDON

Kingston makes a quality module that is very market friendly with its pricing. Our target for system...
GEORGE CONDON

The region is altogether valueless. After entering it, there is nothing to do but leave.
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SEAN CONDON

Lisa?s been a big part of our success but it has been someone new stepping up every week. It?s alway...
JENNY CONDON

I think her endurance and mental toughness. She was struggling entering the season coming back from ...
JENNY CONDON

That's a lot of runs. We've been moving things around, trying to switch up our lineup to get some ti...
JENNY CONDON

Sarah's probably our most confident player. She doesn't get rattled in any situation. She's the kind...
JENNY CONDON

We absolutely believe we can compete with anyone in the conference. If we play our best we can beat ...
JENNY CONDON

Somebody needs to look at the whole picture. If (the state) can't take on a Cape-wide study, then so...
JENNY CONDON

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Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.
BILL WATTERSON

God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that...
BILL WATTERSON

There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
BILL WATTERSON

We don't devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
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The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
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The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a...
BILL WATTERSON

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
BILL WATTERSON

Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
BILL WATTERSON

If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life.
BILL WATTERSON

It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.
BILL WATTERSON

Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
BILL WATTERSON

Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell.
BILL COPELAND

Keep your word. Honor commitments, and they will double back to honor you.
BILL RANCIC

Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But i...
BILL GATES

The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft in...
BILL GATES

According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first w...
BILL GATES

My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a ...
BILL GATES

Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated ...
BILL GATES

The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best.
BILL GATES

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.
BILL GATES

People want to watch whatever video they want to watch whenever they want to watch. If you provision...
BILL GATES

In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actua...
BILL GATES

My wife thinks she's better than me at puzzles. I haven't given in on that one yet.
BILL GATES

In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive.
BILL GATES

I think there will be PCs at every price point.
BILL GATES

I don't have a magic formula for prioritizing the world's problems.
BILL GATES

The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natu...
BILL GATES

The only definition by which America's best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.
BILL GATES

Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. ...
BILL GATES

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I&...
BILL GATES

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a littl...
BILL GATES

Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on...
BILL GATES

I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so t...
BILL GATES

To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes so...
BILL GATES

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.
BILL GATES

People everywhere love Windows.
BILL GATES

I'm never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.
BILL GATES

The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.
BILL GATES

If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago...
BILL GATES

Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.
BILL GATES

Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.
BILL GATES

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.
BILL GATES

China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.
BILL GATES

The best teacher is very interactive.
BILL GATES

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.
BILL GATES

The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.
BILL GATES

Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it k...
BILL GATES

I'm a geek.
BILL GATES

I know there's a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that's fine with me.
BILL GATES

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, a...
BILL GATES

Go empower yourself. You need confidence because the one thing that bullying does is it belittles yo...
BILL GOLDBERG

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
BILL GATES

Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and...
BILL GATES

Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.
BILL GATES

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
BILL GATES

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.
BILL GATES

We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve.
BILL GATES

In the old generation, if one kid bought a PlayStation 2 and the other kid bought an Xbox, at his ho...
BILL GATES

The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one o...
BILL GATES

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more...
BILL GATES

The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of p...
BILL GATES

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.
BILL GATES

Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.
BILL GATES

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BILL GATES

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like cust...
BILL GATES

Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy.
BILL GATES

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People f...
BILL GATES

By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.
BILL GATES

Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.
BILL GATES

Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.
BILL GATES

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to...
BILL GATES

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.
BILL GATES

Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is...
BILL PASCRELL

I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted - stay up all night or e...
BILL BRYSON

Under many current state laws, minors who have been victims of trafficking are charged as criminals ...
BILL FLORES

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.
BILL COSBY

I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?
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People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what&...
BILL COSBY

If you watch kids looking at something on television, even something that's produced for them an...
BILL COSBY

I'm not going out and hitting a 95-mph fastball where I can't see the stitches. I'm not ...
BILL COSBY

There are two sides to every story, and sometimes three, four, and five.
BILL COSBY

When I say, I don't care what white people think, I mean that.
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BILL COSBY

Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
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BILL COSBY

Sometimes you try to help people, and it backfires on you, and then they try to take advantage of yo...
BILL COSBY

Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.
BILL COSBY

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BILL COSBY

Gray hair is God's graffiti.
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A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
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If you took your child to the dentist and check for cavities, the child likely won't get them. I...
BILL COSBY

By the 1960s, many of us believed that the Civil Rights Movement could eliminate racism in America d...
BILL COSBY

The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.
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BILL HICKS

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The man who rows the boat seldom has time to rock it.
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A buddy will keep you honest and add a dimension of fun to your workout.
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Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't transla...
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I just became one with my browser software.
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BILL WATTERSON

Like many of you, I've always been slightly obsessed with vampires, dating back to the prime-time series 'Dark Shadows,' which I followed avidly as a kid.

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Like many of you, I've always been slightly obsessed with vampires, dating back to the prime-time series 'Dark Shadows,' which I followed avidly as a kid.

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