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It’s populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.

Aaron Sorkin

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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Guarded Gun Live Men Military Wall World
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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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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Census Certain Episode Fall People Sampling Statis Versus Year
It’s important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. ‘The West Wing’ isn’t meant to be good for you.
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Entertainment Foremost Important West Wing
And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.
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Lake Size Tahoe Thin Wheat
A hero would die for his country, but he’d much rather live for it.
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Country Dies Forever Hero Live
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
We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
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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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She’s a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
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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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When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that’s not going to be me.
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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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The guy who wins the Oscar for Best Actor has a much higher bar to clear than the woman who wins best actress.
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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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My preference would have been to not go back on the air after 911, at all until the time felt right but that wasn’t an option.
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