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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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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I think that if I couldn’t write, I would be unemployable.
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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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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 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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We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
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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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Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.
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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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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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Toby: All right. It couldn’t have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building…is our talent.
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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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With a television series, there’s a hard deadline, and so you have to write even when you’re not writing well.
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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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We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
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