A hero would die for his country, but he’d much rather live for it.
AARON SORKINWe live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
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It’s a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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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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The stuff that I write doesn’t work very well as background music. You have to watch it from beginning to end and pay attention as if you were watching a play.
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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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There are no Asian movie stars
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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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The thing I know how to do most is write a play. I came up loving plays and learning about plays and writing plays. I actually feel like an outsider when I’m writing movies and television.
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The downside to series television is that the schedule is ferocious. It constantly feels like you have a midterm due that you haven’t started yet.
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Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I’m going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.
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That’s a very real feeling – that I don’t have a story to tell. I’m not a pure storyteller. I have a tough time with story.
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People who don’t know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.
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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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The first step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one – America is not the greatest country in the world anymore.
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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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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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