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This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.
Aaron Sorkin
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Aaron Sorkin
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 9
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Aaron Benjamin Sorkin
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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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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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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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I'm not interested in the difference between good and bad, I'm interested in the differences between good and great.
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