I’ve never met anyone who has said, “My goal is to make America mediocre.” That’s a kind of hard-right conservative fallacy.
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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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 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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You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we’re presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated – not nearly as black and white as we’re led to believe.
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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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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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If you can socialize from the privacy of your desk at night in a dark room, you can be a smoother, cooler, funnier, sexy, more everything person than you actually are in real life.
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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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It’s a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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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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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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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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Decisions are made by those who show up. Don’t ever forget that you’re a citizen of this world.
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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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Film doesn’t have to worry. Movies are awesome. There’s no war going on, theaters aren’t going to lose.
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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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