Decisions are made by those who show up. Don’t ever forget that you’re a citizen of this world.
AARON SORKINRoxy 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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I like workplace shows and White House was a very glamorous workplace to set a show in; it appealed to a sense of romanticism and idealism that I have.
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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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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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Just to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else.
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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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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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I think that if I couldn’t write, I would be unemployable.
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Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word ‘census’, and people fall asleep.
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Elite is not a bad word, it’s an aspirational one.
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I’m sick of girls who don’t know how to high-five.
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She’s a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
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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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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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This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.
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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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