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.
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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This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.
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It’s populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.
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Decisions are made by those who show up. Don’t ever forget that you’re a citizen of this world.
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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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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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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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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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When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that’s not going to be me.
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I have a lot of respect for people who are great at ad-libbing, and for writers and directors who are able to create a scene in which that works.
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There are no Asian movie stars
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If I get an idea for a series that I really like, I’m sure I won’t be able to resist coming back and doing it.
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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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There’s that process of writing it – then you come out of your room into the sunlight, and you now have to complete the circuit and make the connection finally with the audience.
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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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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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She’s a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
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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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Toby Zeigler: There’s literally no one in the world I don’t hate right now.
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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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I’m a registered Republican, I only seem liberal because I believe that hurricanes are caused by high barometric pressure and not gay marriage.
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Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word ‘census’, and people fall asleep.
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It’s important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. ‘The West Wing’ isn’t meant to be good for you.
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I’m sick of girls who don’t know how to high-five.
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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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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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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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