Beau Willimon Quotes
Writing plays supplied for me everything that painting didn't, which is the ability to tell stories in real time, in a real space, in three dimensions, in flesh and blood. I realized I had been trying to cram all this narrative into my paintings, but ultimately painting was a static medium. So it just opened up this whole new door.
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If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.
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NATO remains the cornerstone of Atlantic security.
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I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.
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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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I do not consider myself beautiful.
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I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.
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I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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I'm very competitive but in a very nice way.
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I've committed to surfing the rest of my life.
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Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
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People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
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A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.
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Growing up, I think I always had a sense of art: a sense that there was poetry in the world. I didn't know where I was going to find it. I didn't know where I was going to fit in, that was for sure. But I kept moving forward. There wasn't a future in anything other than movement.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.
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When 'Ice Ice Baby' was selling a million records a day, I bought several properties: a home next to Michael J. Fox in L.A., a palace in Miami and a mountain cabin in Utah. Then, a few years later, I took a break from touring, saw that my properties had cobwebs, so I sold them, and - to my surprise - I made a huge profit!
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If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to show how that character is absolutely justified in his or her own mind, or the scene will come across as being about the author's views rather than about the character's.
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Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.
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What got me into making movies was that I wanted to be a journalist.
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My core beliefs revolve around the idea that we should live to the best of our abilities-we should live and let live.
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Akhnaten is kind of a dark, kind of mysterious character. We don't know a lot about him - a lot of information on him was lost. But he obviously was a kind of iconoclast of him time. I guess I'm attracted to people like that. Like [Albert] Einstein also, who radically changed our way of thinking about the world we live in.
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Writing plays supplied for me everything that painting didn't, which is the ability to tell stories in real time, in a real space, in three dimensions, in flesh and blood. I realized I had been trying to cram all this narrative into my paintings, but ultimately painting was a static medium. So it just opened up this whole new door.
