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Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
Aaron Sorkin
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Aaron Sorkin
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 9
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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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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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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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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world, and there are things you can do to lift the human spirit, things that are easy, things that are free, things that you can do every day: civility, respect, kindness, character.
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We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
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As an audience member, I like the sound of something that's been written - I like it to sound written. And then, of course, you can't do it without the musicians who can play it.
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A friend is somebody who says the same things to your face that they would say if you're not in the room.
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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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I'm terribly afraid of failure. When your identity is wrapped up in writing and you've written something that doesn't work, it's a tough pill to swallow.
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As a dramatist, you're looking for points of friction.
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Only criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are.
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Humans know when it's not a good story. Unless you do this for a living, you may not know exactly why you don't like a story, but you can't fool an audience ever. They know when you have it and they know when you don't.
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