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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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"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."

"You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half."

"Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world."

"There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep."

"The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down."

"Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose."

"The other one I did was "I, Robot." I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world."

"I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat."

"Yet, nearly 6 decades after the Holocaust concluded, Anti-Semitism still exists as the scourge of the world."
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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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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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