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

Aaron Sorkin

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Mrs. Landingham, does the President have free time this morning?"

"The President has nothing but free time, Toby. Right now he's in the residence eating Cheerios and enjoying Regis and Kathie Lee. Should I get him for you?"

"Sarcasm's a disturbing thing coming from a woman of your age, Mrs. Landingham."

"What age would that be, Toby?"

"Late twenties?"

"Atta boy.

Aaron Sorkin

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I don't want to analyze myself or anything, but I think, in fact I know this to be true, that I enter the world through what I write.
I grew up believing, and continue to believe, that I am a screw-up, that growing up with my family and friends, I had nothing to offer in any conversation.
But when I started writing, suddenly there was something that I brought to the party that was at a high-enough level.

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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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An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.

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And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.

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Toby: All right. It couldn't have gone far, right?

Sam: No.

Toby: Somewhere in this building...is our talent.

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President Bartlet:

There's a delegation of cardiologists having their pictures taken in the Blue Room. You wouldn't think you could find a group of people more arrogant than the fifteen of us, but there they are, right upstairs in the Blue Room.

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Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

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Josh: So, Toby, it’s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it?
Toby: God bless America.

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