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Stupid people surround themselves with smart people. Smart people surround themselves with smart people who disagree with them.

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Aaron Sorkin
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 9
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Playwright
Scenographer
Screenwriter
Showrunner
Television Producer
Writer
New York City
New York
Aaron Benjamin Sorkin
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An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.
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I'm a playwright. All I care about is the play being good.
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I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write, but those characters are characters.
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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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It's certainly easy for me to make a fictional character mad about something. I can get them angry about something that I'm relatively indifferent about, just because I'm not educated on it, if I go to someone who is educated about it and is passionate about it. I find a point of fiction and then give it to them.
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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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Never argue with a drunk or a fool.
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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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I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says, You may have fooled some of the people some of the time but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent and I'm not your mommy, I'm a white piece of paper, you wanna dance with me? and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.
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I have a lot of respect for people who are great at ad-libbing, and for writers and directors who are able to create a scene in which that works.
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Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder.
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Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.
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Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
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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 grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.
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Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.
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