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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. 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.
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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.
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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.
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A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.
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When things that are very mean-spirited and voyeuristic go on TV, I think it`s [like] bad crack in the schoolyard.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I can justify those two things by simply saying, when that stops happening, when we lose our credibility, the show isn`t as good.
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Well, what a show like this will do that conventional news reporting can`t, is, we can show you the two minutes before and after what you see on CNN.
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We`re about to shoot an episode on Air Force One, for instance, and we`re going to take liberties, small liberties, with Air Force One, as we take small liberties with our White House set.
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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.
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Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
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When I am setting out to do something, I don`t consider the state of the culture. I can`t possibly conceive of what the most people are going to like. Honest to God, I write something that I like, that I think my friends would like and that I think my father would like, and I keep my fingers crossed that enough other people are going to like it that I can earn a living.
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[speaking about "mushrooms"] I had found a drug I absolutely love and that gave me a real break from a certain nervous tension that I kind of carry with me moment to moment.
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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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Trivia
His two political stories, The West Wing and The American President, both feature heroic Democratic presidents. Ironically, his first successful script, A Few Good Men, was based on a case tried by a Republican, David Iglesias, who would later gain fame as one of the U.S. Attorneys fired by the George W. Bush administration.
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His daughter's name: Roxy, born November 17, 2000
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Many of his works contain references to the operas of Gilbert & Sullivan. In Malice (1993), the doctor played by Alec Baldwin boasts that he is "never, ever sick at sea", lyrics from "The HMS Pinafore". In "The West Wing" (1999), Sam Seaborn (Rob Lowe) says that he was recording secretary of the Princeton Gilbert & Sullivan society, and many of the regular characters welcome Ainsley Hayes (Emily Procter) to her new office by decorating it with G&S posters and singing "He Is an Englishman", also from "Pinafore", to her. The second episode of "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" (2006) closes with the cast of the show-within-the-show singing a parody of "I Am the Very Model Of a Modern Major-General" from "The Pirates of Penzance". In "Charlie Wilson's War" he gives Gust a throwaway line of "...and I'm never, never sick at sea." which is a line from HMS Pinafore.
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He is considered one of Scarsdale High School's "Distinguished Alumni." His picture hangs among the other alumni near the school's cafeteria.
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Attended and Graduated from Syracuse Univeristy with a BFA in Musical Theatre.
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Wrote a 1988 Rolling Stone Magazine article about the top acting schools in the U.S. One of the featured schools was the State University of New York at Purchase (S.U.N.Y. Purchase) where Janel Moloney ("Donna" on "The West Wing" (1999)) happened to be attending at the time.
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A judge sentenced him to a drug-diversion program as a result of his arrest at a California airport for carrying marijuana, rock cocaine and hallucenogenic mushrooms. [19 June 2001]
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In July 2000, he signed a four-year deal with Warner Bros. TV for approximately $15 million. The deal marks the first time that he has signed an exclusive long-term production deal.
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