I’ve never met anyone who has said, “My goal is to make America mediocre.” That’s a kind of hard-right conservative fallacy.
AARON SORKINI’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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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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If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
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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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My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.
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She’s a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
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Elite is not a bad word, it’s an aspirational one.
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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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The hardest thing for me is getting started. If I’m writing a script, really 90 per cent of it would be just walking around, climbing the walls, just trying to put the idea together. Then the final 10 per cent would be writing it.
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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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Josh: So, Toby, it’s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it? Toby: God bless America.
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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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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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Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.
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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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It’s a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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