Top 37 Quotes by Beau Willimon

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These are some quotes by American author Beau Willimon Playwright.

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.

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.

Beau Willimon

If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.

If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.

Beau Willimon

At home I mostly stick to online Scrabble, or 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.

Beau Willimon

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

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

Beau Willimon

The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.

The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.

Beau Willimon

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.

Beau Willimon

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

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

Beau Willimon

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.

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.

Beau Willimon

The press don'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.

Beau Willimon

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.

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.

Beau Willimon

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