My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.
AARON SORKINThere are no Asian movie stars
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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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With a television series, there’s a hard deadline, and so you have to write even when you’re not writing well.
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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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Only criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are.
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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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I like workplace shows and White House was a very glamorous workplace to set a show in; it appealed to a sense of romanticism and idealism that I have.
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There are no Asian movie stars
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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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It’s a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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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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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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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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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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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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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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