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.
AARON SORKINJust to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else.
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It’s a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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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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My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.
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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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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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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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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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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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Toby: All right. It couldn’t have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building…is our talent.
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I’ll get cast occasionally as sort of the jerk version of myself, and I have fun doing that. But it’s really better for everyone if I stay behind the camera.
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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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We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
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Never argue with a drunk or a fool.
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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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If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
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