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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.

Aaron Sorkin

It’s a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.
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There are television critics, movie critics, and theater critics too who I like and who I follow and I get genuinely bummed when they don’t like something that I’ve written because I usually agree with them.
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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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I’m a registered Republican, I only seem liberal because I believe that hurricanes are caused by high barometric pressure and not gay marriage.
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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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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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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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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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We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
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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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Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren’t that many tour-de-force roles out there for women.
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Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.
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Honestly, I don’t try to guess at what most people want. I don’t think I’d guess right, and I just think that that’s not a good recipe for storytelling. I try to write what I like, what I think my friends would like.
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Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word ‘census’, and people fall asleep.
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Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I’m writing episode seven now and couldn’t tell you what happens in episode eight.
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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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