Beau Willimon Quotes
Richard III is not likeable. Macbeth is not likeable. Hamlet is not likeable. And yet you can't take your eyes off them. I'm far more interested in that than I am in any sort of likeability.
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I like the fact that Austin's the first place I've ever lived where there's a real sense of community. People care about their neighbors.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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But you know, I always said that no one else on my block was on the radio, and it was fun.
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If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.
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You can only be free as an artist if you're free as a person.
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Investing in gold is one of the wisest decisions that you can make as an investor.
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I'm really good at making teen angst romantic. I'm really good at dealing with heartbreak and things like that and making it into this whole experience. But there's no way to make someone-on-the-Internet-said-something-mean-about-me into romantic angst where you can listen to music and cry or whatever.
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I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.
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Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.
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The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.
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Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.
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Teaching can be learning, especially if student curiosity with the question 'What's going on here?' can be elicited.
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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.
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I enjoy directing more when I don't have to direct myself. I like when I can just be the director.
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I have every single Ferrari that came out. I have all the Mercedes they came out with, all the Jaguars they came out with, all the Porsches they came out with.
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The economic costs of starting your own business can be significant; in fact, most new startup companies fail because of undercapitalization.
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I prefer tailored clothes. I always have. But I find that whatever I wear, people see it as charged with symbolic meaning.
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As long as we set up equality, we'll go in the right direction.
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I don’t think that I am the most informed or that I’ve earned my place to be a political spokes-voice. So I try to keep that type of politic out of my songwriting and I do it more in my personal life. I do a lot of fundraising, I do a lot of awareness raising through charity fundraising and lots of stuff that I do via eBay or my website, and I try to donate to causes that are fighting Trump’s racist system or the awful effects that Brexit is going to have.
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Both Brutus and Hamlet are highly intellectual by nature and reflective by habit. Both may even be called, in a popular sense, philosophic; Brutus may be called so in a stricter sense.
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Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it.
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Richard III is not likeable. Macbeth is not likeable. Hamlet is not likeable. And yet you can't take your eyes off them. I'm far more interested in that than I am in any sort of likeability.
