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If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.

Aaron Sorkin

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
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
Honestly, I don’t try to guess at what most people want. I don’t think I’d guess right, and I just think that that’s not a good recipe for storytelling. I try to write what I like, what I think my friends would like.
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Guess Honesty Most People Right Thinking Try Want 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
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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Barometric Believe Gay Hurricane Liberal Pressure Registered Republican
Just to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else.
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Alan Clarify Division Doe Labor Show Writing
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
What’s interesting, is that I’ve found that the more accomplished a director is, the more secure they are in giving direction that sounds incredibly unsophisticated.
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Accomplished Director Giving Interesting Secure Sound
When I was a kid, I wanted to be an actor. I was acting in all the school plays. I went to school for acting. I was really sure that that’s what I wanted to do.
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Actor Kid Play Really School Wanted Went
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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America Country Greatest Recognizing World
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
The first step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one – America is not the greatest country in the world anymore.
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Disagree Look People Scene Two Written
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 Castle Hand Sorta Stand Talking Writing
Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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Age Athlete Better Get Opposite Writer
If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
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There are no Asian movie stars
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