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You can only write, 'Somebody wants something, something else is in their way of getting it.'
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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An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.
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And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.
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I'm terribly afraid of failure. When your identity is wrapped up in writing and you've written something that doesn't work, it's a tough pill to swallow.
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It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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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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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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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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Elite is not a bad word, it's an aspirational one.
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