We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
AARON SORKINYou know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we’re presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated – not nearly as black and white as we’re led to believe.
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Just to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else.
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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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That’s a very real feeling – that I don’t have a story to tell. I’m not a pure storyteller. I have a tough time with story.
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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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This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.
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It seems to me that more and more we’ve come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.
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There are no Asian movie stars
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I’ve never met anyone who has said, “My goal is to make America mediocre.” That’s a kind of hard-right conservative fallacy.
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I think that if I couldn’t write, I would be unemployable.
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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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She’s a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
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Writing anything, it sorta starts the way you’d build a castle at the beach. You’re just taking your hands and you’re mounting up sand.
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My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.
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There are no Asian movie stars
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I want to convey that I’m crazy about the Kardashians – but I’m not sure which is which.
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