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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.

Beau Willimon

I don’t think that Washington is a fundamentally bad or corrupt place.
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Bad Corrupt Fundamentally Thinking
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
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
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.
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Games Home Play
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
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
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
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
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
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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Brain Shifting Wire
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
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
My jobs on campaigns were pretty low on the totem pole – I was an advance man.
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Campaign Jobs Men
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
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
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 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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