My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.
AARON SORKINThe thing I know how to do most is write a play. I came up loving plays and learning about plays and writing plays. I actually feel like an outsider when I’m writing movies and television.
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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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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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If you can socialize from the privacy of your desk at night in a dark room, you can be a smoother, cooler, funnier, sexy, more everything person than you actually are in real life.
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And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.
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The guy who wins the Oscar for Best Actor has a much higher bar to clear than the woman who wins best actress.
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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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Never argue with a drunk or a fool.
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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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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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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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We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
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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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There are no Asian movie stars
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What’s interesting, is that I’ve found that the more accomplished a director is, the more secure they are in giving direction that sounds incredibly unsophisticated.
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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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