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An artist’s job is to captivate you for however long as we’ve asked for your attention. If we stumble into truth, we got lucky, and I don’t get to decide what truth is…I write poetry, Toby. That’s how I enter the world.
Poet Laureate Tabatha Fortis, The West Wing (via logical-insanity)
Aaron [Sorkin] wrote me a very lovely email saying that Toby [Ziegler] is one of his favorite characters he’s ever written, and he talked about our relationship building that character. He said, “I’ve heard what’s happening to your character [Toby was fired and faced years in prison during season seven but ultimately was pardoned] and I’m so sorry.” And that’s how I felt: very sorry that they had chose to do what they did. They didn’t tell me in advance like Aaron and Tommy would have. Clearly they didn’t want to tell me because they were scared of my reaction to it. I would have talked them out of it because it was not in line with the six years of work that I built with that character. I was very, very hurt by it.
Richard Schiff, on The West Wing gone wrong.
“The twenty-some years in the past have witnessed a big change in the world. A big geopolitical situation. Globalization is almost dead. Free trade is almost dead. And a lot of people still wish they would come back, but I really don’t think they will be back for a while.”
“Free trade stops wars! And we figure out a way to fix the rest.”
- Senior fake presidential advisor Toby Ziegler 👇