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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.

Aaron Sorkin

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Aaron Sorkin
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 9
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New York City
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Aaron Benjamin Sorkin
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When you're writing a movie or a play and writing isn't going well, which is for me the normal condition - it's an exceptional day when suddenly I've got something and it's going well - you can call the studio or the producer or whoever is waiting for it and say, I know I said I was going to have it in by the end of the summer.
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That's a very real feeling - that I don't have a story to tell. I'm not a pure storyteller. I have a tough time with story.
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Never argue with a drunk or a fool.
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Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
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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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Stupid people surround themselves with smart people. Smart people surround themselves with smart people who disagree with them.
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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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I want to convey that I'm crazy about the Kardashians - but I'm not sure which is which.
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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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It wouldn't kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.
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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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She's a person the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
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