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This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.
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Aaron Sorkin
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 9
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Aaron Benjamin Sorkin
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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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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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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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I do enjoy the fact that we don't have a king or queen we have a person with a very unusual temp job for a few years. My favorite moments on the show were always showing the intersection of the person and the job. Any time Bartlet from the West Wing could be something other than the president - a father, or a husband, or a son, or a friend.
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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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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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It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. 'The West Wing' isn't meant to be good for you.
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It was hard saying goodbye to the character and harder saying goodbye to the actor. When rumours started going around that Rob Lowe might be leaving I got an email from Josh Malina asking if I'd be interested in an actor who was cheaper and not as good looking. I wrote back, Always, and that was that.
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It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.
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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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Music is what mathematics does on a Saturday night.
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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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Decisions are made by those who show up. Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world.
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Toby Zeigler: There's literally no one in the world I don't hate right now.
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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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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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As a dramatist, you're looking for points of friction.
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It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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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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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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