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When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that’s not going to be me.

Aaron Sorkin

When I feel that something I’m writing is going well, everything in my life is good and the things in my life that aren’t good are completely manageable. If it’s not going well, Miss America could be standing there in a swimsuit handing me a nobel price and I wouldn’t be happy about it
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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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Basketball Group Like Metaphor Pass West Wing
I’m sick of girls who don’t know how to high-five.
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Five Girl High Know Sick
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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Only criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are.
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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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It’s important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. ‘The West Wing’ isn’t meant to be good for you.
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Entertainment Foremost Important West Wing
It’s populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.
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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
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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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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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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We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
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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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Basketball Group Like Metaphor Pass West Wing
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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Air Back Been Felt Option Preference Time
As a dramatist, you’re looking for points of friction.
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Dramatist Friction Looking Point

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