Beau Willimon Quotes

I don't think that Washington is a fundamentally bad or corrupt place.

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• I think 'North by Northwest' and 'Rope' and Rear Window' and 'Psycho' are on my list of favorite all time movies. I just think his kind of command as a director was almost unparalleled, and I feel like in certain ways the sort of character-based thriller owes more to Hitchcock than anyone.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Time
  • Character
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• I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your prejudices into it. And neuroscience is like a lot of disciplines - it has fashions; things change.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Think
  • Change
  • Human

• What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Think
  • Doing
  • Matters

• I had a bad conscience until I discovered that having a bad conscience about something so gravely serious as leaving your children is an affectation, a way of achieving a little suffering that can't for a moment be equal to the suffering you've caused.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Children
  • Bad
  • Suffering

• However good a Constitution may be, if those who are implementing it are not good, it will prove to be bad. However bad a Constitution may be, if those implementing it are good, it will prove to be good.

  

  Babasaheb
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• If I see someone doing a new sport, I usually like to throw myself into it, and I never look at it and think, 'That's something I can't do.'

  

  Manu Bennett
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• Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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  • You
  • Meet

• I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.

  

  Ian Mckellen
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  • Years
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• I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Think
  • You
  • Outsider

• When I write for kids, I have to make sure they know what can't happen. They have to know it's a fantasy. But when I write for adults, they have to think it's real. Every detail has to be real or they won't buy it.

  

  R. L. Stine
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  • Kids
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• I think that ageism is a cultural illness; it's not a personal illness.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Think
  • Personal
  • Illness

• When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • American
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  • Society

• I like romantic comedy as a genre, but I think it can get stuck in its ways.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
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  • Comedy
  • Romantic

• At what point is someone precluded from availing themselves of the justification of self-defense because of their own poor judgment or bad behavior?

  

  Dan Gelber
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  • Judgment
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• I think it's really good to get the adrenaline pumping.

  

  Maika Monroe
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• As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Art
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  • You

• When I'm in the U.K. – and I'm here more than people would think – I tend to keep a very low profile.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • People
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  • Keep

• If I recall correctly, I think I signed my first contract with Tor in 1983.

  

  L. E. Modesitt
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  • First
  • Contract

• Mania is as bad as it gets. If not treated, it will become worse, more frequent, and harder to treat.

  

  Kay Redfield Jamison
  • Bad

• Building a rainy-day fund during good times may not be politically popular, but it can pay off during the bad times.

  

  Ben Bernanke
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  • May
  • Bad

• One needs the invented, the spontaneous, the impromptu for ritual. Skepticism, that grain of salt, is inappropriate.

  

  E. M. Broner
  • Needs
  • Inappropriate
  • Grain Of Salt

• It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Good
  • Work
  • Mind

• I like doing a bunch of different things, being all over the place.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Different
  • Things
  • Doing

• I don't think that Washington is a fundamentally bad or corrupt place.

  

  Beau Willimon
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