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An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.

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Aaron Sorkin
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 9
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Aaron Benjamin Sorkin
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Honestly, I don't try to guess at what most people want. I don't think I'd guess right, and I just think that that's not a good recipe for storytelling. I try to write what I like, what I think my friends would like.
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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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I want to convey that I'm crazy about the Kardashians - but I'm not sure which is which.
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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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There are no Asian movie stars
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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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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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I love writing. I'm not particularly comfortable in the actual world - I'm much more comfortable on the page. So if I could have a life where I could just slip the pages under the door and somebody would slip me a meal back, then that would be perfect for me.
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When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me.
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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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This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.
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I'd been concerned all along that the character of the president in the West Wing pilot would throw the ensemble out of whack, that that character would simply take up all the oxygen in a room. I wanted to hold off bringing this character in until the last possible moment.
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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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My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.
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Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
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The downside to series television is that the schedule is ferocious. It constantly feels like you have a midterm due that you haven't started yet.
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Decisions are made by those who show up.
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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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You can only write, 'Somebody wants something, something else is in their way of getting it.'
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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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