Beau Willimon Quotes
The political world is a dark place. If you want to portray it accurately, authentically, you've got to turn out the lights from time to time.
Quotes to Explore
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In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water.
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It was really in the Golden Age, between the two world wars, when the pure detective story - of which the locked room mystery is really the ultimate form - became popular.
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I vowed I would do everything I could to stop the Isle of Man counting towards the world championship. And it was stopped, so they love me in the Isle of Man.
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When it's time to film and to actually take on the role of Precious, I felt an immense responsibility to do it justice.
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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
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I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautiful Caravaggio. Just the way this man uses dark paint: dark to create dark to create dark, the layering of the darkness in his work. I just race home: I want to create!
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The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.
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The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.
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We're certainly not in position to expand into the East. We've been very candid and up front that if, in fact, we go through an expansion process, the world will know about it.
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You can think what you like of Madonna - about her political choices and her PR - but you have to respect her courage not to let the critics stop her exploring her potential.
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When I was really little, I loved Whitney Houston. I thought she was the prettiest thing in the world.
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The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.
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We're in a period of revolutionary change. I'm optimistic. One's self changes, and then the world changes. It's going to begin internally, not externally.
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Theater will cast in a more open way; Denzel Washington might play Richard III. Television and film don't really cast openly like that. The theater world has always been a leader in diversity.
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It's impossible that we're alone in the universe. Every time we think we're more special than others, we're proven wrong.
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I myself got married at a very young age. It has always intrigued me because marriage is very synthetic in an otherwise natural world.
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With the world changing fast, we needed capital for investments. There's only so much bandwidth in your own balance sheet.
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We have the best sporting event in the world in polo, and yet it is weak.
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It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.
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I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much.
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The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.
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I am where I am because of the bridges I have crossed.
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The industrial powerhouse of 1950 [Detroit] is now a crime-ridden wasteland with a functioning literacy rate equivalent to West African basket-cases.
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The political world is a dark place. If you want to portray it accurately, authentically, you've got to turn out the lights from time to time.
