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Aaron Sorkin Inspirational Quotes (103)

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My preference would have been to not go back on the air after 9\11, at all until the time felt right but that wasn't an option.
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I like workplace shows and White House was a very glamorous workplace to set a show in it appealed to a sense of romanticism and idealism that I have.
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The hardest thing for me is getting started. If I'm writing a script, really 90 per cent of it would be just walking around, climbing the walls, just trying to put the idea together. Then the final 10 per cent would be writing it.
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The first step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one - America is not the greatest country in the world anymore.
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There's that process of writing it - then you come out of your room into the sunlight, and you now have to complete the circuit and make the connection finally with the audience.
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Only criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are.
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When I feel that something I'm writing is going well, everything in my life is good and the things in my life that aren't good are completely manageable. If it's not going well, Miss America could be standing there in a swimsuit handing me a nobel price and I wouldn't be happy about it
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One of the biggest challenges in the past for me in working on the networks was that audiences have grown accustomed to television being something that keeps you company-background music, something that you have on while you're flipping through a magazine, cooking dinner, talking on the phone, putting the kids to bed.
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I think it's up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch.
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With a television series, there's a hard deadline, and so you have to write even when you're not writing well.
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What's interesting, is that I've found that the more accomplished a director is, the more secure they are in giving direction that sounds incredibly unsophisticated.
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I've never met anyone who has said, My goal is to make America mediocre. That's a kind of hard-right conservative fallacy.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be an actor. I was acting in all the school plays. I went to school for acting. I was really sure that that's what I wanted to do.
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Just to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else.
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Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.
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I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write, but those characters are characters.
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If you can socialize from the privacy of your desk at night in a dark room, you can be a smoother, cooler, funnier, sexy, more everything person than you actually are in real life.
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The stuff that I write doesn't work very well as background music. You have to watch it from beginning to end and pay attention as if you were watching a play.
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When you're writing a movie or a play and writing isn't going well, which is for me the normal condition - it's an exceptional day when suddenly I've got something and it's going well - you can call the studio or the producer or whoever is waiting for it and say, I know I said I was going to have it in by the end of the summer.
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Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder.
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I'm sick of girls who don't know how to high-five.
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Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.
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The real problem with all drugs is that they work. Fantastically. They're great, right up until the moment they kill you.
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If you close your eyes you can imagine the hackers sitting in a room, combing through the documents to find the ones that will draw the most blood. And in a room next door are American journalists doing the same thing. As demented and criminal as it is, at least the hackers are doing it for a cause. The press is doing it for a nickel.
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