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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.

Aaron Sorkin

When I was a kid, I wanted to be an actor. I was acting in all the school plays. I went to school for acting. I was really sure that that’s what I wanted to do.
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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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I think that if I couldn’t write, I would be unemployable.
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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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It wouldn’t kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.
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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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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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Only criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are.
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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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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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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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Honestly, I don’t try to guess at what most people want. I don’t think I’d guess right, and I just think that that’s not a good recipe for storytelling. I try to write what I like, what I think my friends would like.
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Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.
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There are television critics, movie critics, and theater critics too who I like and who I follow and I get genuinely bummed when they don’t like something that I’ve written because I usually agree with them.
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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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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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