<div dir="ltr">As an absent-minded singer I feel this a lot... </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 6:41 PM Schindler, Esther <<a href="mailto:esther.schindler@hpe.com">esther.schindler@hpe.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">



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<div>From the Wait Wait interview with Aaron Sorkin</div>
<div><a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/03/02/699121814/not-my-job-we-quiz-west-wing-creator-aaron-sorkin-on-hot-wings" target="_blank">https://www.npr.org/2019/03/02/699121814/not-my-job-we-quiz-west-wing-creator-aaron-sorkin-on-hot-wings</a></div>
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<div>(excerpt, there’s plenty more, including how he broke his nose writing)</div>
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SALIE: Aaron, you're so, of course, known for your dialogue. Does it just come into your brain, and you quickly write it down? Like, do you hear the back and forth? Or is it something that you actually have to conjure?</p>
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SORKIN: On a good day, I do. But I don't have many good days.</p>
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SAGAL: Yeah.</p>
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SORKIN: I kind of start pacing around and trying to get into an argument with myself. And if I can get a good one going, then it starts going down on paper.</p>
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SALIE: Like, out loud? Do you do this out loud?</p>
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SORKIN: Oh, yes.</p>
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(LAUGHTER)</p>
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SORKIN: While I was doing "The West Wing..."</p>
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POUNDSTONE: Didn't you...</p>
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SORKIN: A messenger came to my office with a package from the president of NBC.</p>
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SAGAL: Right.</p>
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SORKIN: And in it was a headset that you're supposed to pair to your car phone. And there was a note from the president of NBC saying, I was next to you at a red light today. Please wear this anytime you're driving your car. You look like a madman.</p>
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(LAUGHTER)</p>
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SAGAL: So because you were just, like, shouting at imaginary people in your car...</p>
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SORKIN: I'm shouting at C.J. and Bartlet and Sam. Everybody's fighting in my car.</p>
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SAGAL: Right. And so the idea was if you just wear a headset, you will at least look like you're shouting at a real person.</p>
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SORKIN: At least it looks like I'm being mean to somebody.</p>
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