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.
AARON SORKINJosh: 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.
More Aaron Sorkin Quotes
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I think that if I couldn’t write, I would be unemployable.
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Never argue with a drunk or a fool.
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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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Elite is not a bad word, it’s an aspirational one.
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As a dramatist, you’re looking for points of friction.
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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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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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If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
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Toby Zeigler: There’s literally no one in the world I don’t hate right now.
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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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My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.
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President Bartlet: There’s a delegation of cardiologists having their pictures taken in the Blue Room. You wouldn’t think you could find a group of people more arrogant than the fifteen of us, but there they are, right upstairs in the Blue Room.
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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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My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.
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There’s that process of writing it – then you come out of your room into the sunlight, and you now have to complete the circuit and make the connection finally with the audience.
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