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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.

Aaron Sorkin

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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Cooler Dark Desk Night Privacy Real Sexy Smoother Socialize
What’s interesting, is that I’ve found that the more accomplished a director is, the more secure they are in giving direction that sounds incredibly unsophisticated.
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Accomplished Director Giving Interesting Secure Sound
I’m a playwright. All I care about is the play being good.
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Be Care Good Play Playwright
I don’t believe there are two sides to every argument. I think the facts are the center. And watching the news abandon the facts in favor of “fairness” is what’s troubling to me.
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Argument Believe Center Side Thinking Two Watching
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
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
I think that if I couldn’t write, I would be unemployable.
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Thinking Umemploabl e Would Write Writing
President Bartlet: There’s a delegation of cardiologists having their pictures taken in the Blue Room. You wouldn’t think you could find a group of people more arrogant than the fifteen of us, but there they are, right upstairs in the Blue Room.
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Blue Cardiologist Delegation Picture President Room Taken Thinking
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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Glamorous House Something White Workplace Written
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
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
Just to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else.
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Alan Clarify Division Doe Labor Show Writing
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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Beach Castle Hand Sorta Stand Talking Writing
As a dramatist, you’re looking for points of friction.
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Dramatist Friction Looking Point
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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Consider Dialogue Important Intrusion Mean Necessary Plot Snappy Writing
And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.
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Lake Size Tahoe Thin Wheat

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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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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