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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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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 guy who wins the Oscar for Best Actor has a much higher bar to clear than the woman who wins best actress.
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I don’t believe there are two sides to every argument. I think the facts are the center. And watching the news abandon the facts in favor of “fairness” is what’s troubling to me.
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Only criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are.
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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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Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
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Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.
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Toby Zeigler: There's literally no one in the world I don't hate right now.
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With a television series, there's a hard deadline, and so you have to write even when you're not writing well.
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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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A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.
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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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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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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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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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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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It wouldn't kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.
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Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I'm going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.
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I don't have personal experience and knowledge about anything but theater. I've been tutored very well on the subject, but ultimately I'm going back to the rules of drama. There are genres that I like as an audience member that I can't write as a writer. I can't write crime, and I like a good thriller as much as anybody.
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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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