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Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

Anything Aspirations Because Between
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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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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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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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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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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's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

Being Combination Dumb Life
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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 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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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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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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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.

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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.

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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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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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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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Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Bears Close Come First
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If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.

Certainly Dollars Down Dumb
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If the characters on 'The West Wing' were watching a TV show wherein a character like Trump was leading in the polls, they wouldn't find it believable.

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Marriage is a great institution.

Great A Institution Marriage
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The properties of people and the properties of character have almost nothing to do with each other. They really don't. I know it seems like they do because we look alike, but people don't speak in dialogue. Their lives don't unfold in a series of scenes that form a narrative arc.

Alike Almost Almost Nothing Arc
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The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

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Not all paintings are abstract; they're not all Jackson Pollock. There's value in a photograph of a man alone on a boat at sea, and there is value in painting of a man alone on a boat at sea. In the painting, the painting has more freedom to express an idea, more latitude in being able to elicit certain emotion.

Able Abstract Alone Being
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I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire it.

Admire Adore Because Gems
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Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Appetite Baby Big Canal
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When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me. So when David Fincher comes along and wants to direct 'The Social Network,' when Bennett Miller comes along and wants to direct 'Moneyball,' or when Danny Boyle wants to direct 'Jobs'? Hallelujah. I want them directing it.

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Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

Could Economy Few Government
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While I was doing 'The Newsroom,' I always had the news on on different networks on different TVs around my house and around my office.

Always Around Different Doing
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The first thing I wrote was a one-act play that got accepted at a one-act play festival, and I was in it along with Nathan Lane and a couple of other very good actors.

Accepted Actor Along Couple
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I'll get cast occasionally as sort of the jerk version of myself, and I have fun doing that. But it's really better for everyone if I stay behind the camera.

Behind Better Camera Cast
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Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Always Bad Book Disgrace
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I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions.

Admitted Always Passions Ruled
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I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue.

Consider Dialogue Necessary Plot
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We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.
Everyone Help Someone We
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