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Beau Willimon Quotes

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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: playwright
Nationality: american

Topics

Good Time Morals You Bad Want

Conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute have criticized Bush for his big increases in spending, which far exceed those of the Clinton era.

Foundation Think Heritage Big Tanks

I'm a poet first and foremost, before the modelling.

First Poet Before Modelling Foremost

I've always said in my career and in my life I only do things I'm interested in.

Life My Life Career Said Always

This is the time for me to step out and show that I don't just want to play the nice guy roles, and I think I'll find out what my limits are.

Time Step Me Limits Think Play

I've always been interested in rootedness - mainly, I suppose, because I had very little experience of it.

John Lanchester

Experience Always Little Been Very

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

Yourself You Never Write Read Full

I'll tell you something that's completely true - you can, as a man, obtain everything you want with the truth. If you lie, first of all you've got to be a very good lying actor, which is tres difficile. And it's going to give you poison inside the body.

Good Truth Lie Man You Body

Ideally, I'd like to write poetry for public performances and prose for a different, more contemplative kind of consumption.

Poetry Kind More Write Different

Many people who don't like Rachmaninov's style consider the 'Rhapsody' his masterpiece. It's written fantastically well for orchestra and piano. He combines a lot of effervescence with a deep, Romantic spirit.

Style Romantic People Deep Spirit

And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.

Nature Winter Snow Wind Will Land

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.

Power Trust Argument Sound Right

In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.

Literature You Choose Meal Only Set

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