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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.

Aaron Sorkin

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
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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Basketball Group Like Metaphor Pass West Wing
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
I don’t think I write differently when I’m writing a screenplay, as opposed to a stage play or a teleplay. Maybe if I were in a film class and there was time to think about it, we could point out differences.
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Class Differently Opposed Screenplay Stage Teleplay Thinking Write Writing
I’m sick of girls who don’t know how to high-five.
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Five Girl High Know Sick
There are television critics, movie critics, and theater critics too who I like and who I follow and I get genuinely bummed when they don’t like something that I’ve written because I usually agree with them.
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Critic Follow Genuinely Television Theater
I want to convey that I’m crazy about the Kardashians – but I’m not sure which is which.
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Convey Crazy Kardashian Not Sure Want
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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Able Create Director Hero People Writer
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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Afraid Failure Identity Tough Writing
I think it’s up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch.
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Compelling Enough People Stuff Thinking Watch Writing
Only criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are.
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Adulters Criminal Hide Identity Should
I think that if I couldn’t write, I would be unemployable.
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Thinking Umemploabl e Would Write Writing
Toby Zeigler: There’s literally no one in the world I don’t hate right now.
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Hate Literally No One Right Toby World
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
She’s a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
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Doctor News Person Pronounce She
A hero would die for his country, but he’d much rather live for it.
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Country Dies Forever Hero Live

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