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I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write, but those characters are characters.

Aaron Sorkin

A hero would die for his country, but he’d much rather live for it.
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Country Dies Forever Hero Live
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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If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
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Never argue with a drunk or a fool.
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Arguing Drunk Fool never
Decisions are made by those who show up. Don’t ever forget that you’re a citizen of this world.
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Citizen Decision Forget World
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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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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Decisions are made by those who show up. Don’t ever forget that you’re a citizen of this world.
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Citizen Decision Forget World
Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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It wouldn’t kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.
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Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.
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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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The downside to series television is that the schedule is ferocious. It constantly feels like you have a midterm due that you haven’t started yet.
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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’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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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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I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write, but those characters are characters.

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