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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I’m sick of girls who don’t know how to high-five.
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You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we’re presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated – not nearly as black and white as we’re led to believe.
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And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.
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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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Toby Zeigler: There’s literally no one in the world I don’t hate right now.
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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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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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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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I think that if I couldn’t write, I would be unemployable.
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She’s a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
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I’m terribly afraid of failure. When your identity is wrapped up in writing and you’ve written something that doesn’t work, it’s a tough pill to swallow.
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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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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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As a dramatist, you’re looking for points of friction.
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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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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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Elite is not a bad word, it’s an aspirational one.
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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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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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I think it’s up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch.
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If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
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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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Decisions are made by those who show up. Don’t ever forget that you’re a citizen of this world.
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Just to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else.
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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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