The guy who wins the Oscar for Best Actor has a much higher bar to clear than the woman who wins best actress.
AARON SORKINOnly criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are.
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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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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.
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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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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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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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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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Just to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else.
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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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When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that’s not going to be me.
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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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Elite is not a bad word, it’s an aspirational one.
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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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It’s a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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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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Toby Zeigler: There’s literally no one in the world I don’t hate right now.
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