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Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.

Aaron Sorkin

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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The stuff that I write doesn’t work very well as background music. You have to watch it from beginning to end and pay attention as if you were watching a play.
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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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When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that’s not going to be me.
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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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We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
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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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If I get an idea for a series that I really like, I’m sure I won’t be able to resist coming back and doing it.
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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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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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We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
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I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write, but those characters are characters.
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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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My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.
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Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.
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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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