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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In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.
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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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Back in the day, cooking definitely was the thing where you could make a lot of money. Also, it was something that I liked to do.
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I've been trying to find out what my wheelhouse is as an actor. 'Gilmore' was my first job, so only from there did I have a chance to really experiment and see how far I could stretch; I went maybe a little too far in certain directions.
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I don't care about making a fool of myself on stage anymore. I don't care what people think.
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Growing up in London, with a hippie mom, I don't know that I'm most people's definition of what a black person is. I'm mixed, yes, but in the world I'm defined as black before I'm defined white. I've never been called white.
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I have trouble with things like Facebook. It presents such a warped vision. I get sick of people's opinions about every little thing and this warped view that everyone is as happy as a pig in garbage.
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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.
