Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren’t that many tour-de-force roles out there for women.
AARON SORKINTo 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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Toby: All right. It couldn’t have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building…is our talent.
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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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And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.
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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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Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.
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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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There’s that process of writing it – then you come out of your room into the sunlight, and you now have to complete the circuit and make the connection finally with the audience.
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Never argue with a drunk or a fool.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That’s what I look for.
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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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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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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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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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The thing I know how to do most is write a play. I came up loving plays and learning about plays and writing plays. I actually feel like an outsider when I’m writing movies and television.
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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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