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When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won’t meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It’s the perversion of idealism.

Beau Willimon

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.
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Believe Creative People
The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.
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Balance Government Way
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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Accomplish Anything Contract Human
When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won’t meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It’s the perversion of idealism.
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Compromise Party Way
If you work hard and play by the rules, you’ll have a better life than your parents did, and your children will have a better life than you did.
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Children Hard Play Work
My jobs on campaigns were pretty low on the totem pole – I was an advance man.
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Campaign Jobs Men
When you’re creating new roles out of scratch in my opinion working with the actors is a great asset. You can learn a lot from that.
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Creating Role Scratch
Every director is different. One of the great things about getting to work with so many directors in one TV series is collaborating with different artistic visions and voices.
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Director Vision Voice
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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Life Love Our Struggle
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.
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Ambition Games Thinking
And they all have something to offer and making the story better and bringing their vision to what you see in the frame.
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Better Frame Something Story
I refuse to buy a PS3 or Xbox for my home for fear that it might ruin my life.
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Home Thinking Xbox
I don’t think that Washington is a fundamentally bad or corrupt place.
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Bad Corrupt Fundamentally Thinking
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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Constitution Facts Slavery
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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Location Lot Rely Stage Thing
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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Notes People Scenarios

When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won’t meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It’s the perversion of idealism.

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