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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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We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
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Asian Movie No Star
There are no Asian movie stars
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Change Expect Less More Seem Should Thinking
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 Build Hand Mountain Sorta Talking Writing
Toby: All right. It couldn’t have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building…is our talent.
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Building Gone Right Somewhere Talent Toby
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
This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.
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Bob Fifteen Minute People Serious Time Up
My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.
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Aspirationally Hero Lies Lying Pulse Resting Romantically Taste Writing
A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.
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DifferentTelling might Organization Responsibility Sophisticated Stories
Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That’s what I look for.
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Disagree Look People Scene Two Written
She’s a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
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Doctor News Person Pronounce She
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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America Country Election Night Rom Sunlight
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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Background Beginning End Music Play Stuff Watch Writing
With a television series, there’s a hard deadline, and so you have to write even when you’re not writing well.
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Deadline Hard Not Well Series Television Write Writing
The guy who wins the Oscar for Best Actor has a much higher bar to clear than the woman who wins best actress.
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Actress Bar Clear Guy Oscar Winning Woman
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
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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Change Expect Less More Seem Should Thinking

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