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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One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
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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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It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians.
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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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As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss and has all the power. I'm a control freak, so that's really hard for me. Then when you see a film later, it can be infuriating, really disappointing. I've been very lucky, though, and so many of my early experiences were great.
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You can always tell a novice rider; they aren't comfortable in the saddle and have to hang on.
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I think representation is the most important thing in the world. People who are young look up to the things that they see in the media. They want to relate and to be able to say, 'Wow, I can be successful.'
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If you don't simply communicate with your spouse what household tasks you would like them to do, you are setting yourself up to be angry.
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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.
