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I’m sick of girls who don’t know how to high-five.

Aaron Sorkin

Decisions are made by those who show up. Don’t ever forget that you’re a citizen of this world.
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Citizen Decision Forget World
Honestly, I don’t try to guess at what most people want. I don’t think I’d guess right, and I just think that that’s not a good recipe for storytelling. I try to write what I like, what I think my friends would like.
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Guess Honesty Most People Right Thinking Try Want Writing
Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.
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Conflict Divide Journalism Television
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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Argument Believe Center Side Thinking Two Watching
Elite is not a bad word, it’s an aspirational one.
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Aspiration Bad Word Elite One
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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Blue Cardiologist Delegation Picture President Room Taken Thinking
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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Background Beginning End Music Play Stuff Watch Writing
My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.
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Aspirationally Hero Lies Lying Pulse Resting Romantically Taste Writing
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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Bone Close Eight Episode Must Script Tell Writing
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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Consider Dialogue Important Intrusion Mean Necessary Plot Snappy Writing
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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Actress Bar Clear Guy Oscar Winning Woman
Toby Zeigler: There’s literally no one in the world I don’t hate right now.
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Hate Literally No One Right Toby World
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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Disagree Look People Scene Two Written
There are no Asian movie stars
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Asian Movie No Star
The 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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Know Loving Most Movie Play Television Writing
The hardest thing for me is getting started. If I’m writing a script, really 90 per cent of it would be just walking around, climbing the walls, just trying to put the idea together. Then the final 10 per cent would be writing it.
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Afraid Terrible Trying Walking Wall Writing

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