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I think it’s up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch.

Aaron Sorkin

Toby: All right. It couldn’t have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building…is our talent.
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Building Gone Right Somewhere Talent Toby
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 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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Air Back Been Felt Option Preference Time
Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.
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Conflict Divide Journalism Television
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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Academy Award Father Guinea Insist Pig Respect Roxy Sorkin Won
It wouldn’t kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.
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Film Kill Newspapers Pick Watch
A hero would die for his country, but he’d much rather live for it.
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Country Dies Forever Hero Live
Writing anything, it sorta starts the way you’d build a castle at the beach. You’re just taking your hands and you’re mounting up sand.
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Beach Build Hand Mountain Sorta Talking Writing
Toby: All right. It couldn’t have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building…is our talent.
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Building Gone Right Somewhere Talent Toby
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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America Country Greatest Recognizing World
There are no Asian movie stars
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Asian Movie No Star
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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She’s a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
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Doctor News Person Pronounce She
Just to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else.
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Alan Clarify Division Doe Labor Show Writing
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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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

I think it’s up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch.

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