And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.
AARON SORKINPeople who don’t know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.
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Elite is not a bad word, it’s an aspirational one.
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I’m a playwright. All I care about is the play being good.
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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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Just to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else.
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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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My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.
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She’s a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
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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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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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A hero would die for his country, but he’d much rather live for it.
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Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I’m writing episode seven now and couldn’t tell you what happens in episode eight.
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Honestly, I don’t try to guess at what most people want. I don’t think I’d guess right, and I just think that that’s not a good recipe for storytelling. I try to write what I like, what I think my friends would like.
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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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This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.
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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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