Beau Willimon Quotes
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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.
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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.
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What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.
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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.
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I think that ageism is a cultural illness; it's not a personal illness.
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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.
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I like romantic comedy as a genre, but I think it can get stuck in its ways.
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At what point is someone precluded from availing themselves of the justification of self-defense because of their own poor judgment or bad behavior?
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I think it's really good to get the adrenaline pumping.
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As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.
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When I'm in the U.K. – and I'm here more than people would think – I tend to keep a very low profile.
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If I recall correctly, I think I signed my first contract with Tor in 1983.
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If you sing beautifully about nothing, no one will listen. If you sing badly about great stuff, no one will listen. Ideas are everywhere, but my theory is that a writer doesn't just think of an idea: they perform them.
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I think I'd be a good dad; it would be a pleasure.
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People ask what those women saw in me. Let's face it, I wasn't a bad-looking stud. But that's not it. It's the music; it's standing up there under the lights. A lot of women just flip; looks have nothing to do with it. You call Mick Jagger good-looking?
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I love ABC Family!
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Those women with collagen lips just look like frogs - 'muffin mouths,' I call them. There's not a line on their brows, and all the emotion gone from their faces, like all those actresses in 'Desperate Housewives.'
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I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.
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I don't think that Washington is a fundamentally bad or corrupt place.
