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We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.

Aaron Sorkin

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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When I was a kid, I wanted to be an actor. I was acting in all the school plays. I went to school for acting. I was really sure that that’s what I wanted to do.
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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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Toby: All right. It couldn’t have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building…is our talent.
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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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It’s important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. ‘The West Wing’ isn’t meant to be good for you.
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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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As a dramatist, you’re looking for points of friction.
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Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I’m going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.
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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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