Sam tells Mallory, "Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal outright." This is a variation on a quotation by Pablo Picasso: "Good artists copy. Great artists steal." (Ironically, one of Sorkin's lines from this episode ("Every time we think we've measured our capacity to meet a challenge, we look up and we are reminded that that capacity may well be limitless") was plagiarized during an NBC sports feature airing directly before the 2006 Kentucky Derby. The freelance writer who wrote the line was fired.
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