People who don’t know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.
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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Toby Zeigler: There’s literally no one in the world I don’t hate right now.
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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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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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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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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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We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
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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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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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Decisions are made by those who show up. Don’t ever forget that you’re a citizen of this world.
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It wouldn’t kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.
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The downside to series television is that the schedule is ferocious. It constantly feels like you have a midterm due that you haven’t started yet.
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I’m sick of girls who don’t know how to high-five.
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I’m a playwright. All I care about is the play being good.
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I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue. But when I’m writing, the way the words sound is as important to me as what they mean.
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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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