If I get an idea for a series that I really like, I’m sure I won’t be able to resist coming back and doing it.
AARON SORKINShe’s a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
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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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The first step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one – America is not the greatest country in the world anymore.
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She’s a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
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And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.
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What’s interesting, is that I’ve found that the more accomplished a director is, the more secure they are in giving direction that sounds incredibly unsophisticated.
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I grew up in the theatre. It’s where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.
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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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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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If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
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When I feel that something I’m writing is going well, everything in my life is good and the things in my life that aren’t good are completely manageable. If it’s not going well, Miss America could be standing there in a swimsuit handing me a nobel price and I wouldn’t be happy about it
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I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write, but those characters are characters.
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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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With a television series, there’s a hard deadline, and so you have to write even when you’re not writing well.
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To use a basketball metaphor, West Wing cast was a group that liked to pass as much as they liked to shoot.
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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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