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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The money that bin Laden inherited was about 20 million dollars over the course of many years, not the much larger sums some have suggested. In 1994, his family cut him off.
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I don't look at a knife the way I used to. I'm more aware of what it is. I think twice. This is a key finger. It's in every chord.
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Yes, the audience is so important to Negro music, especially the element of call and response.
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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
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It's hard to be a teenager. It's lonely, and you feel like no one understands you. I think that's natural, and my mother let me have the space to feel that way.
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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.
