I think that if I couldn’t write, I would be unemployable.
AARON SORKINWriting 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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Only criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are.
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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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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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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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There are no Asian movie stars
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It seems to me that more and more we’ve come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.
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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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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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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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A hero would die for his country, but he’d much rather live for it.
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Toby: All right. It couldn’t have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building…is our talent.
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Just to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else.
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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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If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
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Toby Zeigler: There’s literally no one in the world I don’t hate right now.
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