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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.

About Any Anything Day
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.

Between Burns Difference Longer
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Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.

About Asleep Census Certainly
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When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance.

Appearance Head Her Improves
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I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible... and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary.

Children Making Necessary Parents
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Our responsibility is to captivate you for however long we've asked for your attention. That said, there is tremendous drama to be gotten from the great, what you would say, heavy issues.

Asked Attention Drama Gotten
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I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.

Back Daylight Going Hour
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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.

Entertainment First Foremost Good
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My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.

Caught Cure Died Disease
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It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.

Area Communication Communication Skills Day
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There really isn't a story that you can't tell inside of it. It's very much a clearinghouse for anything that goes on in the world. So you're not at all limited.

Anything Goes Inside Limited
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There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do

About Great Kings Old
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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.

Bone Close Eight Episode
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Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

Borrow Good Great Other
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I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.

About Beyond Dialogue Drama
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Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.

Audience Bad Getting Good
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But HBO is less interested in how many people are watching than in how much the people who are watching are liking the show. They didn't set up their business model to make writers happy. It's just a nice unintended consequence.

Business Business Model Consequence Happy
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Decisions are made by those who show up.
Decisions Made Show Those
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Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.

Change Change The World Ever Forget
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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.

Change Come Each Expect
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And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
Friends Nothin Seen You
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It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

Being Combination Dumb Life
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I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them.

Adventurous Afraid Behind Doors
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There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

Avoiding Being Combination Coming
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I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me.
About Any Autobiographies Me
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I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white, and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people some of the time, but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent, and I'm not your mommy; I'm a white piece of paper. You wanna dance with me?' and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.

Agent Dance Days Fooled
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I have a woman's body and a child's emotions.

Body Child Emotions Woman
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I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.

Am Done Earned Everyone
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It's not the having, it's the getting.

Getting Having Not Mindset
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So much to do, so little done, such things to be.

Done Little Much Such Things
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I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality

I Think Internet Reality Reality TV
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The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

Annoying Generally Going People
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I am truly at my happiest not when I am writing an aria for an actor or making a grand political or social point. I am at my happiest when I've figured out a fun way for somebody to slip on a banana peel.

Actor Am Banana Figured
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Big girls need big diamonds.

Big Diamonds Girl Need
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Everything makes me nervous - except making films.
Everything Except Films Makes
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I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.

Actor Body Control Enough
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I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife.

Housewife Ordinary Pretend An
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My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue.

Afraid Dialogue Eight Going
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I don't think President Bush is doing anything at all about Aids. In fact, I'm not sure he even knows how to spell Aids.

About AIDS Anything Bush
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I really don't remember much about Cleopatra. There were a lot of other things going on.

About Cleopatra Going Lot
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I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I've done four shows, and only one of them was the 'West Wing.'

Done Every Failure Four
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I sweat real sweat and I shake real shakes.

Real Shake Shakes Sweat
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When a movie is being rolled out, the studio publicists and all our individual publicists get together and come up with bullet points and talking points - 'Make sure you stay away from this,' and 'Don't say that quite that way, because that quote can be taken out of context,' and that kind of thing.

Away Because Being Bullet
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I think I'm finally growing up - and about time.
About Finally Growing Growing Up
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All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
America Begins Change Dinner
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I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.

Baby Been Courage Mother
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If I am writing a movie and I am stuck, I can call the studio and tell them it's delayed. You can't do that with television - you have air dates to meet.

Air Am Call Dates
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Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

Always Been Concentrated Enemy
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I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?

Been Claim How Make
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I spend most of my days pacing around, muttering that I have no ideas, feeling like I'm walking a plank.

Around Days Feeling Ideas
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