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As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.

Aaron Sorkin

When I was a kid, I wanted to be an actor. I was acting in all the school plays. I went to school for acting. I was really sure that that's what I wanted to do.

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Toby Zeigler: There's literally no one in the world I don't hate right now.

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If you close your eyes you can imagine the hackers sitting in a room, combing through the documents to find the ones that will draw the most blood. And in a room next door are American journalists doing the same thing. As demented and criminal as it is, at least the hackers are doing it for a cause. The press is doing it for a nickel.

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When I feel that something I'm writing is going well, everything in my life is good and the things in my life that aren't good are completely manageable. If it's not going well, Miss America could be standing there in a swimsuit handing me a nobel price and I wouldn't be happy about it

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Tell me what you think and then tell me what the really smart person in the room who disagrees with you thinks.

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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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I want to put our resources where I think they're most needed: Getting rid of any violent person.

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Schlepping all of the equipment is the part I hate more than anything.

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