A hero would die for his country, but he’d much rather live for it.
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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Toby: All right. It couldn’t have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building…is our talent.
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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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Toby Zeigler: There’s literally no one in the world I don’t hate right now.
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Only criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are.
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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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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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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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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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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That’s what I look for.
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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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And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.
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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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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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