Only criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are.
AARON SORKINMy 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 think it’s up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch.
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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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And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.
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There are no Asian movie stars
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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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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.
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She’s a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
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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 can socialize from the privacy of your desk at night in a dark room, you can be a smoother, cooler, funnier, sexy, more everything person than you actually are in real life.
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Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.
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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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Decisions are made by those who show up. Don’t ever forget that you’re a citizen of this world.
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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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I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write, but those characters are characters.
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To 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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