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.
AARON SORKINIt 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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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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I think it’s up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch.
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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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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 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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It’s a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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Elite is not a bad word, it’s an aspirational one.
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This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.
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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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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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Josh: So, Toby, it’s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it? Toby: God bless America.
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The hardest thing for me is getting started. If I’m writing a script, really 90 per cent of it would be just walking around, climbing the walls, just trying to put the idea together. Then the final 10 per cent would be writing it.
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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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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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