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Never argue with a drunk or a fool.

Aaron Sorkin

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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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Decisions are made by those who show up.
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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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Tell me what you think and then tell me what the really smart person in the room who disagrees with you thinks.
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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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I think that if I couldn't write, I would be unemployable.
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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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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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As an audience member, I like the sound of something that's been written - I like it to sound written. And then, of course, you can't do it without the musicians who can play it.
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And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.
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When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me.
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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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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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An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.
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I've never met anyone who has said, My goal is to make America mediocre. That's a kind of hard-right conservative fallacy.
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