Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.
AARON SORKINIt’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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I’m a playwright. All I care about is the play being good.
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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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My preference would have been to not go back on the air after 911, at all until the time felt right but that wasn’t an option.
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Toby Zeigler: There’s literally no one in the world I don’t hate right now.
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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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There are no Asian movie stars
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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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She’s a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
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And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.
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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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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.
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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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To use a basketball metaphor, West Wing cast was a group that liked to pass as much as they liked to shoot.
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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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