Beau Willimon quote: "I refuse to buy a PS3 or Xbox for my home for fear that it might ruin my life. I think I would cease to accomplish anything productive, would quickly dispense with all human contact, and would very well end up with a nasty case of arthritis in my over-used digits from constant gameplay."

Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain t...
BEAU WILLIMON

Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire - when you're telling those in ...
BEAU WILLIMON

Like any young person who gets into a political campaign, I joined out of a highfalutin' desire ...
BEAU WILLIMON

If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in poli...
BEAU WILLIMON

People in D.C. are so psyched when anyone dramatizes them in an exciting way. They're a lot more...
BEAU WILLIMON

In the best possible scenario, whenever you get notes from people, they're good notes, and they ...
BEAU WILLIMON

When you're lucky enough to get paid a nice chunk of change to write a movie or a TV show, you h...
BEAU WILLIMON

You always want to try, in everything you do, to attempt something you've never tried before, an...
BEAU WILLIMON

Money is finite; it's limited by a number and what you can buy with it. Power has no limits if y...
BEAU WILLIMON

It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires,...
BEAU WILLIMON

My jobs on campaigns were pretty low on the totem pole - I was an advance man.
BEAU WILLIMON

The media doesn't create narratives, really. They're not that powerful. What they do is they...
BEAU WILLIMON

Writing plays supplied for me everything that painting didn't, which is the ability to tell stor...
BEAU WILLIMON

We all experience power struggles in our lives - at the workplace, with our friends, in our love liv...
BEAU WILLIMON

The political world is a dark place. If you want to portray it accurately, authentically, you've...
BEAU WILLIMON

In Washington, if you're a congressman or a senator or the President, you make much more money t...
BEAU WILLIMON

At home I mostly stick to online Scrabble, or chess or Risk - games I find far less addictive than t...
BEAU WILLIMON

I don't desire happiness. I think it's a myth, and I don't think it's... and it make...
BEAU WILLIMON

Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want ...
BEAU WILLIMON

When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won't meet in the middle, y...
BEAU WILLIMON

The way I see politics is, I don't think it's cynical to accept the fact politicians are hum...
BEAU WILLIMON

The reality is that politicians, in terms of the amount of power they wield and the amount that they...
BEAU WILLIMON

A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often ...
BEAU WILLIMON

This is the way I think about politics: We want two diametrically opposed things from a politician. ...
BEAU WILLIMON

The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyra...
BEAU WILLIMON

The press don't wake up in the morning simply to be a mouthpiece for pols - they're out to u...
BEAU WILLIMON

I was always a writer - working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did o...
BEAU WILLIMON

There were many years when I was hand-to-mouth and didn't know how I was gonna make rent. I'...
BEAU WILLIMON

I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
BEAU WILLIMON

I don't think that Washington is a fundamentally bad or corrupt place.
BEAU WILLIMON

The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as ...
BEAU WILLIMON

The economics of being a playwright are abysmal. I like to think of the work I do out in Hollywood a...
BEAU WILLIMON

Film is much more visual, a scene is typically a lot shorter, you're dealing with a lot more cha...
BEAU WILLIMON

You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the sil...
BEAU WILLIMON

In politics, it's very theatrical. There's a lot of stage craft. The campaign is trying to t...
BEAU WILLIMON

Richard III is not likeable. Macbeth is not likeable. Hamlet is not likeable. And yet you can't ...
BEAU WILLIMON

I would like to do a period piece. I think that would be fun.
BEAU MIRCHOFF

When I was probably 5 or 6, my mother put me into an acting, singing, and dancing class.
BEAU MIRCHOFF

I missed a lot of school for auditions, but other than that I had a very normal childhood.
BEAU MIRCHOFF

I'm pretty easy going, I think.
BEAU MIRCHOFF

A girl who is interesting and educated and can spark conversation - I find that extremely sexy.
BEAU MIRCHOFF

If youre in an awkward position, feel comfortable enough to walk away.
BEAU MIRCHOFF

I've been in a few love triangles. I've been in a love quadrilateral.
BEAU MIRCHOFF

When people are nervous, some people move around. Some people scratch their leg.
BEAU MIRCHOFF

Ladies, I'll let you in on a lil secret: guys don't notice your nails.
BEAU MIRCHOFF

I love a woman who can out-eat me.
BEAU MIRCHOFF

I'm not classically trained or anything, but I'll rip up a dance floor.
BEAU MIRCHOFF

Netflix, I love you.
BEAU MIRCHOFF

A healthy relationship is built on unwavering trust.
BEAU MIRCHOFF

I lived in Paris for six months when I was sixteen. It was a fend-for-yourself environment.
BEAU GARRETT

Acting is an uncomfortable business because you have to make yourself vulnerable.
BEAU GARRETT

I was a model for eight years. That's the deal: People look. But I didn't like being looked ...
BEAU GARRETT

I'm such an advocate for animal rights and environmental rights.
BEAU GARRETT

Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.
BEAU BRIDGES

I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.
BEAU BRIDGES

Some of my oldest friends are actors. But that's not the only place my friends come from.
BEAU BRIDGES

Sure, I have a lot of friends that are actors. Just because I guess I run into a lot of actors in my...
BEAU BRIDGES

My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.
BEAU BRIDGES

My mom is many times responsible for getting us all together, but we trade off at each other's h...
BEAU BRIDGES

But on the other hand I believe I'm a private person too, and I enjoy that aspect of my life as ...
BEAU BRIDGES

Yeah, I'm very impressed with Lifetime, this is the first time I've worked with them. I real...
BEAU BRIDGES

First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.
BEAU BRIDGES

I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.
BEAU BRIDGES

The things I enjoy most as I watch the movie are the things that came through without even thinking.
BEAU BRIDGES

Dylan, myself and my father were in a two hour movie called The Sand Kings, which started off the Ou...
BEAU BRIDGES

My brother and I are always trying to figure out a way to work again together.
BEAU BRIDGES

We all feel really blessed to have been with my dad for these 85 years.
BEAU BRIDGES

Steve and I saw eye to eye on the story and I got the part, but I think in the beginning it was due ...
BEAU BRIDGES

Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.
BEAU BRIDGES

And I like music, too, I like playing music.
BEAU BRIDGES

My favorite roles usually have to do with the story, if it's a good story I usually enjoy doing ...
BEAU BRIDGES

The one we keep pitching and there are no takers is The Fabulous Baker Boys Go To Hawaii. There don&...
BEAU BRIDGES

I think, I would guess most people keep secrets.
BEAU BRIDGES

I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relat...
BEAU BRIDGES

I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise or...
BEAU BRIDGES

And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old s...
BEAU BRIDGES

If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
BEAU BRUMMEL

My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.
BEAU BRIDGES

Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive th...
BEAU BRIDGES

We needed to play good and win or we'd go home. We're going to have to turn around and do it again t...
BEAU THOMPSON

Kevin did a good job. We also did well inside. We got good games from Cory Jordan and Jared King not...
BEAU THOMPSON

(Davis) played well for us while he was in there. He got two cheapies. He's been really good for us ...
BEAU THOMPSON

I guess all you can say is they outplayed us in every aspect of the game. We did a terrible job pass...
BEAU THOMPSON

I thought he dominated the game with his speed, defensively. Overall, except for a little lull at th...
BEAU THOMPSON

We played good the last 4 minutes of the game. That's really what it took for us to win this one.
BEAU THOMPSON

We gave up too many points in this tournament and we've got to get better defensively. This was a qu...
BEAU THOMPSON

Cory was very efficient with what he did down at the post. He's capable of that night in and night o...
BEAU THOMPSON

We get a technical foul that's very deserving. That was the end of the game. After the technical we ...
BEAU THOMPSON

We played pretty well the second half. We got a good game from Lee Turner. He rebounded the basketba...
BEAU THOMPSON

She seems best at a mile. I think I can get her confidence up more if I go in there. It's an allowan...
BEAU GREELY

I was planning on running in the Big Cap, but he got that virus. Missing a work, it would have been ...
BEAU GREELY

We've got a lot of races to look at, but right now, we're still looking at the Big 'Cap. He doesn't ...
BEAU GREELY

This is two millions in a row. He'll stay here for the Breeders' Cup.
BEAU GREELY

I did think he would make a big run today. He's been a really honest horse. We've always hoped he wo...
BEAU GREELY

Garrett, of course, has had his struggles, but he is a super jockey. I've always had faith in him an...
BEAU GREELY

He's always been a really nice horse, and he's made me happy.
BEAU GREELY

I don't even know it happened yet. I've won some grade Is and I've had a few seconds, but this is so...
BEAU GREELY

You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald spot.
BEAU BRUMMEL

We were confused in the midfield. We talked before the game after dropping back to a 4-5-1, but we d...
BEAU BROWN

Basically I was hoping there was going to be some slamming and banging and some guys getting knocked...
BEAU BROWN

My assistant coach kept telling to me take it to the goal and get fouled. I just had to slow down an...
BEAU BROWN

They didn't need to get involved either; nobody needed to get involved. It's short track.
BEAU BROWN

It's very frustrating to lose this game. We wanted to be the top team. We had a great run. I loved g...
BEAU BROWN

Steve and I saw eye to eye on the story and I got the part, but I think in the beginning it was due ...
BEAU BRIDGES

So I'm playing a villain for instance, who is supposed to be the bad guy of the story, then I like t...
BEAU BRIDGES

I like sports, I enjoy anything to do with the ocean, I like surfing, sailing, I like to play tennis...
BEAU BRIDGES

The main theme in this film is to embrace diversity along with change, because in America we experie...
BEAU BRIDGES

Jeff is a real perfectionist. He likes to do a lot of takes to make sure that we've exhausted everyt...
BEAU BRIDGES

Some people are magic, and others are just the illusion of it.
BEAU TAPLIN

No, I do not want to be loved unconditionally. I want to be shown when I am treating you less than y...
BEAU TAPLIN

I remember actually liking a girl in high school who was kind of an outcast and weird, and people ma...
BEAU MIRCHOFF

As an actor, I travel around a lot and live in a lot of hotels, and many times I've been in a to...
BEAU BRIDGES

The cult of the jellyfish is no less an imposition of a religious movementthan is the cult of the di...
BEAU SHEIL

I want to fall to sleep with you,
and I could care less
whether it is in
layers up...
BEAU TAPLIN

The one thing I know for sure is that feelings are rarely mutual, so when they are, drop everything,...
BEAU TAPLIN

Those who admire the massive, rigid bone structures of dinosaurs should remember that jellyfish stil...
BEAU SHEIL

Kevin did a good job. We also did well inside. We got good games from Cory Jordan and Jared King ...
BEAU THOMPSON

I think we were just riding the emotion from our last game. Everyone knew that this would probably b...
BEAU STEVENS

The cult of the jellyfish is no less an imposition of a religious movement
than is the cult of t...
BEAU SHEIL

At first I was a little afraid, but now I'm comfortable with it.
BEAU LEROUX

I went to several places yesterday and they told us to come over here. If I have to wait until 1 o'c...
BEAU JONES

We didn't meet each other as musicians, we met each other as lifelong friends. That's why we're stil...
BEAU JONES

One of the big differences between our team this year and last year is that we are hitting a lot bet...
BEAU JARRELL

[Although the limited engagement ends Sept. 28, there are hopes for The Big Time beyond the NYMF run...
BEAU GRAVITTE

Doug knows how to write for singers. And, because it's a little bit of a show-biz musical, there's e...
BEAU GRAVITTE

I loved doing [the Encores shows],
BEAU GRAVITTE

But when I'm done with the job I can take it off pretty easy, it's like a suit of clothes, put on so...
BEAU BRIDGES

These are companies that operate in the shadows. Some of these companies are trying to come forward ...
BEAU BRENDLER

We've been surrounded by chaos for the last month and LSU football is a good distraction to keep our...
BEAU BRADSHAW

She has a great topspin serve and we had trouble with it all match. It's kind of tough when you're w...
BEAU BRACCHY

We're going to have our hands full.
BEAU BRACCHY

I told them to settle in and play defense. We needed to be more aggressive like we had been earlier ...
BEAU BRACCHY

If somebody gets hurt or sexually harassed, I really don't want to do it anymore. I don't want peopl...
BEAU BERGERON

I'm creating my own college experience. When you watch a lot of these college movies, it is crazy al...
BEAU BERGERON

Everyone was cheering after we won the OIA, but later on I told our team that's only half the battle...
BEAU ALBRECHTSON

This is a big boost for us. We feel we can take any team and we're going to need this victory to hel...
BEAU ALBRECHTSON

One day, whether you are 14, 28 or 65,
you will stumble upon someone who will start a fire in y...
BEAU TAPLIN

It was heartbreaking. That call could have gone either way. They had the momentum after that, but we...
BEAU ALBRECHTSON

I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates t...
BEAU BRIDGES

There were some nerves knowing that major leaguers go out there. The venue is just so cool. You just...
BEAU STEVENS

Often, when we have a crush, when we lust for a person, we see only a small percentage of who they r...
BEAU TAPLIN

Hearts aren't handcuffs and people aren't prisons. When you feel it's time for you to leave, you lea...
BEAU TAPLIN

Kiss me until I forget how terrified I am of everything wrong with my life.
BEAU TAPLIN

In the night, I am kept awake by the endless chatter of my inner self. I hear it speak softly of old...
BEAU TAPLIN

I felt, when I came home from work at the end of a day, I had to allow myself time to just come down...
BEAU BRIDGES

I liked the Fabulous Baker Boys, Frank Baker I really liked, he was a solid character... I did it wi...
BEAU BRIDGES

Listen to me, your body is not a temple. Temples can be destroyed and desecrated. Your body is a for...
BEAU TAPLIN

And then I got into sports and gave my guitar to my brother Jeff who was just a little kid at that t...
BEAU BRIDGES

I cannot stand the words Get over it. All of us are under such pressure to put our problems in the p...
BEAU TAPLIN

My heart is not captured easily. I am disinterested in small talk, disillusioned with love, and too ...
BEAU TAPLIN

Self love is an ocean
and your heart is a vessel. Make it full,
and any excess will spill ...
BEAU TAPLIN

. . . when we take upon ourselves his yoke of obedience, his yoke is easy, his burden is light (Matt...
WILLIAM H. WILLIMON

Despite our earnest efforts, we couldn't climb all the way up to God. So what did God do? In an amaz...
WILLIAM H. WILLIMON

Jesus didn't die as a frustrated failed revolutionary. His death was the revolution.
WILLIAM H. WILLIMON

I only care about the helped less, and the helpless, not the helpfest or the hellfest.
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU

The rich and the poor truly are from different realms: one has adapted to become an expert in materi...
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU

Detachment is not the absence of emotion, it is the process of becoming one with the Oneness that is...
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU

Greed is taking more than you need to feed. Avarice is hoarding, and stockpiling stolen, rotten good...
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU

The more leeches there are affixed to a host, the less resources there are to siphon from said hosts...
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU

Some people are married to ideas that they do not love, ideas that do not love them in return. They ...
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU

Most people do not want to follow a leader, they want to command the leading of a servant.
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU

The right to write is too sacred to be wrong with.
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU

The reluctant will heed wisdom only when the confidence exhibited by the righteous awakens the seed ...
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU

In business, ruthlessness is righteousness.

Seldom are there those, whom are ruthlessly r...
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU

One of the most liberating notions is learning how many truly do not care about you, and moreover, h...
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU

I've never, nor shall I ever, mourn the loss of a fool. Losing a fool, is the same as gaining, retai...
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU

Most are inclined to recline into a reclining position, in order to enjoy the decline.
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU

The ability to lie, paired with unaccountability, has made a near infinite amount of liabilities.
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU

Happiness is gleaned from a source, which can be attributed to all experiences; it can be found wher...
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU

The United States has never been in a united state, it has never been a united state. It never will....
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU

Some are saving their right now for later, when tomorrow could be never.
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU

Avarice is opposed to nobility.
It believes that by robbing many of all they have, that it (gre...
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU

There are those who are legitimately corrupt, who cannot admit that legitimacy allows them to corrup...
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU

Tell a child, that he will soon be homeless; he will slowly detach from the world. Tell that same ch...
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU

Falsehoods, rob the good in the hood, of the good wood. The good wood, that the good in the hood are...
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU

Until all processes are progressed, the world will not process meaningful, measurable progress.
JUSTIN KYLE MCFARLANE BEAU

Perhaps the saddest part of coexistence is the concept of interdependence being necessary for any fo...
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU

Today. the celebration is for the "victorious", not the meritorious. The depiction to the youth, is ...
JUSTIN KYLE MCFARLANE BEAU

They cannot hurt you; their active participation, the enthusiasm in their willingness to try, proves...
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU

Babes cry, and children whine, but adults sabotage.
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU

The first stage of ignorance is illusion, due to lack of exposure to reality.
The second stage...
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU

Most people like mirrors; what they do not like, is people, who are mirrors.
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU

Sorry is the day, and full of lament, when the young have to guard themselves from being food for th...
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU

In the average, want overcomes reason. In the magnificent, reason is the want.
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU

A gossip spread a rumor, and became notorious from the deed. The gossip then started a fire beyond t...
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU

Corruption ultimately guilts the corrupt, and it hardens the innocent who suffer as a result of it. ...
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU

Say what you will of religion, but draw applicable conclusions and comparisons to reach a consensus....
JUSTIN KYLE MCFARLANE BEAU

Social conditioning, accompanied by moral and mental constraints, now serve to render the mediocre m...
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU

My rage is derived from eyes so sharp they see through the idiocy being passed off as sophistication...
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU

Too many are sorry where they should be assertive, and nearly moved to aggressive radical action, wh...
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU

They don't know who I am; what they do know, is that I'm not nothing, and that I'm not noone.
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU

We can have traders, without them being traitors.

We can trade, without trading others. JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU

Stark truth, is seldom met with open arms.
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU

Do not trust a person without scars. If they have no scars, then it means someone else is wearing th...
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU

I refuse to buy a PS3 or Xbox for my home for fear that it might ruin my life. I think I would cease to accomplish anything productive, would quickly dispense with all human contact, and would very well end up with a nasty case of arthritis in my over-used digits from constant gameplay.

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