Just to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else.
AARON SORKINI’ll get cast occasionally as sort of the jerk version of myself, and I have fun doing that. But it’s really better for everyone if I stay behind the camera.
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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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This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.
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I’ll get cast occasionally as sort of the jerk version of myself, and I have fun doing that. But it’s really better for everyone if I stay behind the camera.
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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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She’s a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
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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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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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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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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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I think that if I couldn’t write, I would be unemployable.
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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 hero would die for his country, but he’d much rather live for it.
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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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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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