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 SORKINThere 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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Decisions are made by those who show up. Don’t ever forget that you’re a citizen of this world.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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She’s a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
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I want to convey that I’m crazy about the Kardashians – but I’m not sure which is which.
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I have a lot of respect for people who are great at ad-libbing, and for writers and directors who are able to create a scene in which that works.
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I’m sick of girls who don’t know how to high-five.
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Elite is not a bad word, it’s an aspirational one.
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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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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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