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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
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New York City
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Aaron Benjamin Sorkin
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If you close your eyes you can imagine the hackers sitting in a room, combing through the documents to find the ones that will draw the most blood. And in a room next door are American journalists doing the same thing. As demented and criminal as it is, at least the hackers are doing it for a cause. The press is doing it for a nickel.
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I'm not interested in the difference between good and bad, I'm interested in the differences between good and great.
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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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Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
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It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census', and people fall asleep.
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It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference.
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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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I'm a registered Republican, I only seem liberal because I believe that hurricanes are caused by high barometric pressure and not gay marriage.
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Honestly, I don't try to guess at what most people want. I don't think I'd guess right, and I just think that that's not a good recipe for storytelling. I try to write what I like, what I think my friends would like.
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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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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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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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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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To use a basketball metaphor, West Wing cast was a group that liked to pass as much as they liked to shoot.
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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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You're going to fall down, but the world doesn't care how many times you fall down, as long as it's one fewer than the numbers of times you get back up.
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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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You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.
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There are television critics, movie critics, and theater critics too who I like and who I follow and I get genuinely bummed when they don't like something that I've written because I usually agree with them.
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