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.
AARON SORKINIt’s a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
More Aaron Sorkin Quotes
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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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If I get an idea for a series that I really like, I’m sure I won’t be able to resist coming back and doing it.
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I think that if I couldn’t write, I would be unemployable.
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I’ve never met anyone who has said, “My goal is to make America mediocre.” That’s a kind of hard-right conservative fallacy.
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There are television critics, movie critics, and theater critics too who I like and who I follow and I get genuinely bummed when they don’t like something that I’ve written because I usually agree with them.
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Only criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are.
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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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Toby: All right. It couldn’t have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building…is our talent.
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There are no Asian movie stars
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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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I’m sick of girls who don’t know how to high-five.
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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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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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She’s a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
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Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.
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