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I think of dying every day... At a certain age, you should be prepared to go at any time.
August Wilson
Time
Day
You
Age
Every Day
Every
Think
Be Prepared
Go
Any
Dying
Certain
Should
Certain Age
Prepared
Like most people, I have this sort of love-hate relationship with Pittsburgh. This is my home, and at times I miss it and find it tremendously exciting, and other times I want to catch the first thing out that has wheels.
August Wilson
Home
Relationship
People
First
Other
Tremendously
Out
Find
Catch
Exciting
Miss
Like
Most
Sort
First Thing
Times
The First Thing
Wheels
Want
Love-Hate
Pittsburgh
Love-Hate Relationship
Thing
My first wife is a good woman, I still can't say nothing bad about her other than the fact that we had a difference on religion. She wanted someone who was a Muslim who shared those values. And I was like a heathen. I had to stay home on Sundays and watch the football game.
August Wilson
Good
Home
Religion
Game
Woman
Wife
Values
First
Nothing
Other
Say
Those
Muslim
Sundays
Bad
Stay
About
Someone
Fact
Had
Football
Shared
Football Game
Like
She
Still
Than
Heathen
Difference
Wanted
Who
Her
Watch
Once I started to value and respect my characters, I could really hear them. I just let them start talking.
August Wilson
Respect
Value
Once
Characters
Could
Talking
Hear
Just
Them
Really
Start
Started
My jobs on campaigns were pretty low on the totem pole - I was an advance man.
Beau Willimon
Man
Jobs
Pretty
Totem
Totem Pole
Advance
Pole
Were
Campaigns
Low
It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, 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.
Beau Willimon
Game
People
Will
Degree
Power
Ambition
Think
Dramatic
Rules
Spirit
Something
Push
Outside
Involved
Identify
Often
Tumble
Whenever
Interesting
Them
Rough
Play
Competitive
Desires
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
Failure
You
Try
Before
Other
Side
Everything
Way
Tried
Something
Only
Through
Attempt
Never
Head
Over
Until
Always
Wall
Get
Banging
Just
Want
Against
Interesting
Succeed
Interesting Thing
Your
Thing
I don't desire happiness. I think it's a myth, and I don't think it's... and it makes you complacent. I feel very satisfyingly uncomfortable. I have the freedom to feel uncomfortable in the way I want to, is maybe a way to put it.
Beau Willimon
Happiness
Freedom
You
Myth
Think
Complacent
Way
Uncomfortable
Put
Feel
Makes
Very
Maybe
Want
Desire
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.
Beau Willimon
Best
Good
You
People
Better
Seen
Otherwise
Possible
See
Scenario
Writer
Better Writer
Make
Get
Whenever
Notes
Things
This is the way I think about politics: We want two diametrically opposed things from a politician. On one hand we want them to be bastions of moral integrity, perfect people, saints. And on the other hand, we want them to be effective leaders.
Beau Willimon
Politics
Integrity
People
Politician
Think
Other
Way
Moral
About
Perfect
Perfect People
Leaders
Opposed
Diametrically
Saints
Hand
Effective
Want
Them
Things
Two
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
Politics
You
Yourself
Power
Ambition
Think
Lust
Else
Wall
Wall Street
Anywhere
Anywhere Else
Really
Media
Street
Applicable
Desire
In politics, it's very theatrical. There's a lot of stage craft. The campaign is trying to tell a story that they want people to believe in, and candidates are playing the role, like actors, by a creative personae that people will be attracted to.
Beau Willimon
Politics
Creative
People
Will
Stage
Believe
Tell
Like
Attracted
Lot
Campaign
Very
Role
Trying
Craft
Candidates
Want
Story
Theatrical
Actor
Playing
The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.
Beau Willimon
You
Constitution
Possibly
About
Fact
Entrenched
Could
Written
Form
Slavery
Imagine
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.
Beau Willimon
You
World
Money
Free
Leader
Think
President
More
Free World
Major
Make
Making
Were
Than
American
Senator
Bank
Average
Average American
Much
Congressman
Washington
I was always a writer - working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV - that was always my goal.
Beau Willimon
Me
Writing
Political
Side
TV
Finds
Something
Writer
Never
Stumbling
Likes
Himself
Operative
Always
Been
Goal
Campaigns
Did
Trajectory
Really
Working
Who
Profession
Dabble
Film
Film And TV
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.
Beau Willimon
Love
Experience
Power
Politicians
Our
Way
Our Lives
Our Love
Struggles
Friends
Workplace
Lives
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.
Beau Willimon
Time
Me
Writing
Space
Three
Painting
Medium
Everything
Static
Dimensions
Tell
Ability
Had
Supplied
Opened
New
Narrative
Real
Been
Ultimately
Blood
Up
Trying
Just
Cram
Real Time
Door
Stories
Which
Realized
Flesh
Whole
Paintings
Plays
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.
Beau Willimon
Car
Job
Living
Every
Liberating
Sun
Detailing
Able
Tables
Factories
Absolutely
Write
Know
Make
Rent
How
Were
Years
Done
Where
Gonna
Working
Many
Prep
Sat
It's really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don't get in trouble.
Beth Henley
Character
You
Trouble
Out
Outburst
Something
Having
Emotional
Like
Get
Whenever
Interesting
Really
In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class.
Beth Henley
You
Class
Lie
Alignment
Had
Pass
Get
Movement
Your
Floor
That was always my inclination, to start on a new play before the other one gets done, because at least you'll have something to go back to if that play gets trashed.
Beth Henley
You
Before
Other
Back
Something
New
Because
Always
Least
Go
Gets
Done
Inclination
Trashed
Play
Start
I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.
Beth Henley
Own
My Own
Divorced
Just
Being
Loved
I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money.
Beth Henley
Theatre
Money
Tried
Failed
La
Meant
Start
Raise
It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.
Beth Henley
Become
Playwright
Kind
Enlightening
My fault now is making my plays too short.
Beth Henley
Fault
Too
Making
Short
Now
Plays
Plays are so much more special if they've never ever had a production, but I think you can really work on a play and make it better with each production.
Beth Henley
Work
You
Better
Think
More
Never
Had
Make
Much
Really
Production
Special
Each
Ever
Play
Plays
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