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Toby: All right. It couldn't have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building...is our talent.

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Aaron Sorkin
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 9
Actor
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Television Producer
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New York City
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Aaron Benjamin Sorkin
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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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The thing I know how to do most is write a play. I came up loving plays and learning about plays and writing plays. I actually feel like an outsider when I'm writing movies and television.
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Writing anything, it sorta starts the way you'd build a castle at the beach. You're just taking your hands and you're mounting up sand.
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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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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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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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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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If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
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Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census', and people fall asleep.
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Tell me what you think and then tell me what the really smart person in the room who disagrees with you thinks.
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Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
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Decisions are made by those who show up. Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world.
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Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.
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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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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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Toby Zeigler: There's literally no one in the world I don't hate right now.
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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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People who don't know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.
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If I get an idea for a series that I really like, I'm sure I won't be able to resist coming back and doing it.
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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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