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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I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue. But when I’m writing, the way the words sound is as important to me as what they mean.
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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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It wouldn’t kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.
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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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There’s that process of writing it – then you come out of your room into the sunlight, and you now have to complete the circuit and make the connection finally with the audience.
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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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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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Decisions are made by those who show up. Don’t ever forget that you’re a citizen of this world.
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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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Decisions are made by those who show up. Don’t ever forget that you’re a citizen of this world.
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Only criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are.
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There’s a great tradition in storytelling that’s thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that’s really what I wanted to do.
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