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.
AARON SORKIN
Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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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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It’s a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.
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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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I’ll get cast occasionally as sort of the jerk version of myself, and I have fun doing that. But it’s really better for everyone if I stay behind the camera.
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Toby: All right. It couldn’t have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building…is our talent.
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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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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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This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.
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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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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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I grew up in the theatre. It’s where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.
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Toby Zeigler: There’s literally no one in the world I don’t hate right now.
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I’m terribly afraid of failure. When your identity is wrapped up in writing and you’ve written something that doesn’t work, it’s a tough pill to swallow.
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