The first step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one – America is not the greatest country in the world anymore.
AARON SORKINThe 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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If you can socialize from the privacy of your desk at night in a dark room, you can be a smoother, cooler, funnier, sexy, more everything person than you actually are in real life.
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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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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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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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My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.
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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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A hero would die for his country, but he’d much rather live for it.
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You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we’re presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated – not nearly as black and white as we’re led to believe.
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There are no Asian movie stars
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Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I’m writing episode seven now and couldn’t tell you what happens in episode eight.
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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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The downside to series television is that the schedule is ferocious. It constantly feels like you have a midterm due that you haven’t started yet.
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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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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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That’s a very real feeling – that I don’t have a story to tell. I’m not a pure storyteller. I have a tough time with story.
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