Beau Willimon Quotes
Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire - when you're telling those in a big way, you automatically want to go to Shakespeare.
Quotes to Explore
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If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.
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Making music is pretty much the only thing I can do.
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Virtually every major technology has an initial spike of interest, then a dip, and then a long-term rise to success. The dot-com bubble is the canonical example, but there are many more.
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A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.
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Christlike communications are expressions of affection and not anger, truth and not fabrication, compassion and not contention, respect and not ridicule, counsel and not criticism, correction and not condemnation. They are spoken with clarity and not with confusion. They may be tender or they may be tough, but they must always be tempered.
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Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.
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I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.
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Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.
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In many ways, anger is a misdirected plea for love.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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It's humbling and enthralling to know your legacy when you're alive.
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I am actually talking about possibly adapting 'The Boys,' by Garth Ennis, which would not be a comedy, but an action movie with comedy elements to it.
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Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are.
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This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.
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I didn't want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn't love literature, but I couldn't distinguish it from reading, and reading was already my default activity, almost like breathing.
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I knew boxing before I knew anything else.
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I'm developing some screenplays at the moment with my Australian producer.
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Ukraine must once again be revered and respected by its citizens as well as the East and the West.
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There is no truly global justice.
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Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement.
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The formula for a hit is saying what people want to hear.
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Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire - when you're telling those in a big way, you automatically want to go to Shakespeare.
