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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.

Aaron Sorkin

Toby Zeigler: There’s literally no one in the world I don’t hate right now.
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Hate Literally No One Right Toby World
I’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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America Conservation Conservative Goal Hard Kind Right
President Bartlet: There’s a delegation of cardiologists having their pictures taken in the Blue Room. You wouldn’t think you could find a group of people more arrogant than the fifteen of us, but there they are, right upstairs in the Blue Room.
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Blue Cardiologist Delegation Picture President Room Taken Thinking
I think it’s up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch.
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Compelling Enough People Stuff Thinking Watch Writing
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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Argument Believe Center Side Thinking Two Watching
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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Disagree Look People Scene Two Written
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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Air Back Been Felt Option Preference Time
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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America Country Election Night Rom Sunlight
If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
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Change Mind Obligation Strongly Trying
There are no Asian movie stars
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Change Expect Less More Seem Should Thinking
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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Beach Build Hand Mountain Sorta Talking Writing
That’s a very real feeling – that I don’t have a story to tell. I’m not a pure storyteller. I have a tough time with story.
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Feeling Pure Real Storyteller Time Tough
Toby: All right. It couldn’t have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building…is our talent.
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Building Gone Right Somewhere Talent Toby
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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Class Differently Opposed Screenplay Stage Teleplay Thinking Write Writing
Honestly, I don’t try to guess at what most people want. I don’t think I’d guess right, and I just think that that’s not a good recipe for storytelling. I try to write what I like, what I think my friends would like.
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Guess Honesty Most People Right Thinking Try Want Writing
Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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Age Athlete Better Get Opposite Writer

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