Beau Willimon Quotes
People in D.C. are so psyched when anyone dramatizes them in an exciting way. They're a lot more open to looking at the nastier side of themselves than the media is.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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When I was on 'Trauma,' the first order was six, which turned to 12, and then there were rumors of getting cancelled. I'm used to that.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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It's really important to me that my sound is a combination of beats and melody. I love hearing strong, confident beats in music because I love to dance. At the same time, melody is really important to me because I love singing.
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After high school, I went to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point for a year, and I studied musical theatre. By that point, I was like, 'This is what I want to do.'
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I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
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When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
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You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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I like to be supportive and a role model.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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I feel like I am doing a lot, but if someone asks me what exactly I have accomplished, I don't know... putting my son to sleep, feeding him, taking care of things in the house amount to a lot of work. But, yes, I haven't arrested 14 criminals in one day or saved the world or anything of that sort!
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There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.
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I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.
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My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more.
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Manipulated, one manipulates others.
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When I got out of college and signed a contract to play pro football in the USFL, the first thing I bought was a Remington 1100 shotgun and a Remington .30-06.
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Mr. Herschel … brought with him the calculations of the computers, and we commenced the tedious process of verification. After a time many discrepancies occurred, and at one point these discordances were so numerous that I exclaimed, 'I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam,' to which Herschel replied, 'It is quite possible.'
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People in D.C. are so psyched when anyone dramatizes them in an exciting way. They're a lot more open to looking at the nastier side of themselves than the media is.
