Beau Willimon Quotes
There were many years when I was hand-to-mouth and didn't know how I was gonna make rent. I've done every job under the sun, from busing tables, temping, and working in factories to SAT prep and detailing cars. So to be able to make a living where all I do is write is absolutely liberating.

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I would happily have done any of the 'Bourne Identity' sequels. There are good sequels, but I'm not good at making them.
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Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.
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I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.
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It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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My mother is a beautiful writer. Writing letters back and forth with her was an athletic endeavor, and it became something I really looked forward to.
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I love samosas filled with mincemeat. My mum makes really great ones.
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There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don't care.
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The important thing is to be there, score when needed. It's better if the goals are beautiful, better still if they are important.
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Being outside is a loose theme on 'Paracosm.' Acoustic-sounding instruments have that warmth to them that is really important to communicate. It was really important for me to tell a story – my favorite records have a narrative feel.
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The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
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The older I get, the less I know. By that I mean the less I am sure of. I view people with strong opinions on the big stuff with distrust. I don't think we should have certain certainties on faith and politics; I think we should be open-minded.
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I would love to play Henry IV, Henry V, and Hamlet.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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If you think about it, all of us have one or more teachers who were instrumental.
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Most of my fights are intelligent.
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Music has a great advantage: without mentioning anything, it can say everything.
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My mother loves me and everything goes well. I have no conflict with her, so that's not dramatic.
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It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries. Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.
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The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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There were many years when I was hand-to-mouth and didn't know how I was gonna make rent. I've done every job under the sun, from busing tables, temping, and working in factories to SAT prep and detailing cars. So to be able to make a living where all I do is write is absolutely liberating.