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" We try to not write stories based on reaction. We try to write them based on character integrity as we understand it and observe it. "
Peter Paige
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" There definitely has been this kind of Hollywood swing back from the pendulum of, 'OK, we're gonna do gay people; we're gonna do queens.' And then it's like, 'No, no, no queens. Queen is too much.' "
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