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If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.

Aaron Sorkin

As an audience member, I like the sound of something that’s been written – I like it to sound written. And then, of course, you can’t do it without the musicians who can play it.
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Audience Member Musician Play Sound
It’s a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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Begin Dumb Graduation Life Screw Super Unpredictable Up
I’m a registered Republican, I only seem liberal because I believe that hurricanes are caused by high barometric pressure and not gay marriage.
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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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Guarded Gun Live Men Military Wall World
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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Accomplished Director Giving Interesting Secure Sound
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 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’m a playwright. All I care about is the play being good.
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Be Care Good Play Playwright
The hardest thing for me is getting started. If I’m writing a script, really 90 per cent of it would be just walking around, climbing the walls, just trying to put the idea together. Then the final 10 per cent would be writing it.
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Afraid Terrible Trying Walking Wall Writing
She’s a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
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Doctor News Person Pronounce She
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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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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Age Athlete Better Get Opposite Writer
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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I don’t think I write differently when I’m writing a screenplay, as opposed to a stage play or a teleplay. Maybe if I were in a film class and there was time to think about it, we could point out differences.
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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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Decisions are made by those who show up. Don’t ever forget that you’re a citizen of this world.
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