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.
AARON SORKINThe 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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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 like workplace shows and White House was a very glamorous workplace to set a show in; it appealed to a sense of romanticism and idealism that I have.
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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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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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Toby Zeigler: There’s literally no one in the world I don’t hate right now.
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There are no Asian movie stars
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And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.
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I think that if I couldn’t write, I would be unemployable.
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When I feel that something I’m writing is going well, everything in my life is good and the things in my life that aren’t good are completely manageable. If it’s not going well, Miss America could be standing there in a swimsuit handing me a nobel price and I wouldn’t be happy about it
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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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When I was a kid, I wanted to be an actor. I was acting in all the school plays. I went to school for acting. I was really sure that that’s what I wanted to do.
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As a dramatist, you’re looking for points of friction.
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When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that’s not going to be me.
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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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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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