Beau Willimon Quotes
I don't desire happiness. I think it's a myth, and I don't think it's... and it makes you complacent. I feel very satisfyingly uncomfortable. I have the freedom to feel uncomfortable in the way I want to, is maybe a way to put it.
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Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.
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Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.
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There is always the fear of failure, and if you struggle, you become nervous, and that's when the underdogs have an opportunity to create a surprise.
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I am definitely a dog person. I feel like Webster and I are very much alike.
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And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me.
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My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.
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As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'
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After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.
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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
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One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
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If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.
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Boxing is real easy. Life is much harder.
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For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.
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The most precious things in speech are pauses.
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I've always thought Shawn Michaels's story is fascinating.
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I have a very wonderfully, bizarrely amazing relationship with my mother in that we've been through a myriad of emotions because we've acted together and played all these different kinds of mother-daughters.
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I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
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A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects.
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living for a high purpose is as honorable as dying for it.
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I would not, under any circumstances, try to impose my personal faith and belief on the rest of the country. I don't think that's right. I don't think that's appropriate. But freedom of religion doesn't mean freedom from religion. And I think that anything we can do to promote the idea that people should express their faith is a good thing.
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If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.
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I don't desire happiness. I think it's a myth, and I don't think it's... and it makes you complacent. I feel very satisfyingly uncomfortable. I have the freedom to feel uncomfortable in the way I want to, is maybe a way to put it.
