Decisions are made by those who show up. Don’t ever forget that you’re a citizen of this world.
AARON SORKINNever argue with a drunk or a fool.
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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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It’s a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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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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Never argue with a drunk or a fool.
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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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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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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 it’s up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch.
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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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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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President Bartlet: There’s a delegation of cardiologists having their pictures taken in the Blue Room. You wouldn’t think you could find a group of people more arrogant than the fifteen of us, but there they are, right upstairs in the Blue Room.
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Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.
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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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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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This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.
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