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 think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
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It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
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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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Sleep teaching was actually prohibited in England. There was something called liberalism. Parliament, if you know what that was, passed a law against it. The records survive. Speeches about liberty of the subject. Liberty to be inefficient and miserable. Freedom to be a round peg in a square hole.
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The U.S. must renounce any U.S. interest in constructing permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq.
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Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
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The cynicism that you have is not your real soul.
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God does not judge us by the multitude of works we perform, but how well we do the work that is ours to do. The happiness of too many days is often destroyed by trying to accomplish too much in one day. We would do well to follow a common rule for our daily lives--DO LESS, AND DO IT BETTER.
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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.
