It’s a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
AARON SORKINThere’s a great tradition in storytelling that’s thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that’s really what I wanted to do.
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The downside to series television is that the schedule is ferocious. It constantly feels like you have a midterm due that you haven’t started yet.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That’s what I look for.
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Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren’t that many tour-de-force roles out there for women.
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Josh: So, Toby, it’s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it? Toby: God bless America.
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I don’t believe there are two sides to every argument. I think the facts are the center. And watching the news abandon the facts in favor of “fairness” is what’s troubling to me.
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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I’m going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.
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My preference would have been to not go back on the air after 911, at all until the time felt right but that wasn’t an option.
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We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
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A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.
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If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
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If you can socialize from the privacy of your desk at night in a dark room, you can be a smoother, cooler, funnier, sexy, more everything person than you actually are in real life.
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Decisions are made by those who show up. Don’t ever forget that you’re a citizen of this world.
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The guy who wins the Oscar for Best Actor has a much higher bar to clear than the woman who wins best actress.
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People who don’t know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.
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