Beau Willimon Quotes:- Beau Willimon (born October 26, 1977) is an American playwright and screenwriter. He helped develop the American version of the series House of Cards and served as showrunner for the first four seasons. In 2018, Willimon created the drama series The First for Hulu, about the first crewed mission to Mars.
Inspirational Beau Willimon Quotes
“My jobs on campaigns were pretty low on the totem pole – I was an advanced man.”
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“Like any young person who gets into a political campaign, I joined out of a highfalutin’ desire to change the world. But you start to see the sort of tactics people use. You start to see politics not only in the macro but in the micro of the campaign itself. Some people get turned off by this side of it. Other people are drawn to it.”
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“The way I see politics is, I don’t think it’s cynical to accept the fact politicians are human beings, that they’re flawed, and they represent the best and the worst of us.”
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“When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, and who won’t meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It’s the perversion of idealism.”
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“In the best possible scenario, whenever you get notes from people, they’re good notes, and they see things that you wouldn’t have seen otherwise, and they make you a better writer.”
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“Richard III is not likable. Macbeth is not likable. Hamlet is not likable. And yet you can’t take your eyes off them. I’m far more interested in that than I am in any sort of likeability.”
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“The film is much more visual, a scene is typically a lot shorter, you’re dealing with a lot more characters, a lot more locations, and you’re able to rely on things that you just can never do on the stage.”
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Famous Quotes by Beau Willimon
“The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.”
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“I don’t think that Washington is a fundamentally bad or corrupt place.”
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“I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.”
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“A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.”
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“You always want to try, in everything you do, to attempt something you’ve never tried before, and the only way to succeed at that is through failure, and the only way to succeed through failure is just banging your head against the wall over and over until you get to that interesting thing on the other side.”
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“Money is finite; it’s limited by a number and what you can buy with it. Power has no limits if you’re willing to go far enough in order to get as much of it as you can.”
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“Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you often have to be ruthless and not bound by ideology or the same morals that we pretend to hold ourselves to.”
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“Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire – when you’re telling those in a big way, you automatically want to go to Shakespeare.”
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“People in D.C. are so psyched when anyone dramatizes them in an exciting way. They’re a lot more open to looking at the nastier side of themselves than the media is.”
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“The economics of being a playwright is abysmal. I like to think of the work I do out in Hollywood as a way to actually make a life in the theater easier.”
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“At home, I mostly stick to online Scrabble, chess, or Risk – games I find far less addictive than the spectacular games created for consoles these days. But, whenever I get the chance, I head over to my friend Kyri’s house to play his PS3.”
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“The reality is that politicians, in terms of the amount of power they wield and the amount that they work, don’t actually make that much money.”
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“The political world is a dark place. If you want to portray it accurately, authentically, you’ve got to turn out the lights from time to time.”
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“We all experience power struggles in our lives – at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we’re all politicians.”
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“The press doesn’t wake up in the morning simply to be a mouthpiece for pols – they’re out to uncover and expose news. That often is at odds with what politicians are setting out to do – it’s both symbiotic and antagonistic. They need each other, they work in concert with one another, they work against one another.”
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“The checks and balances are a way to prevent the government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.”
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“The media doesn’t create narratives, really. They’re not that powerful. What they do is they tap into narratives that are already bubbling amongst their viewership or readership.”
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“It’s a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved – people’s ambitions, their desires, and their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It’s dramatic, it’s interesting, and I think it’s something we can all identify with to a degree.”
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“When you’re lucky enough to get paid a nice chunk of change to write a movie or a TV show, you have no right to complain, really. I guess it’s more of an appeal to the powers that be that the less they interfere, the more likely, actually, they are to get something that works, I think.”
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“If you really think that ambition, power, lust, and desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you’re deluding yourself.”
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“You just have to re-wire your brain when you’re shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.”
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Top 10 Quotes by Beau Willimon
“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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“In Washington, if you’re a congressman or a senator or the President, you make much more money than the average American, but you’d think that if you were the leader of the free world you’d be making major bank, and you don’t.”
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“Writing plays supplied me with 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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“Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you’re setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones.”
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“There were many years when I was hand-to-mouth and didn’t know how I was gonna make rent. I’ve done every job under the sun, from busing tables, temping, and working in factories to SAT prep and detailing cars. So to be able to make a living where all I do is write is absolutely liberating.”
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