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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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Aaron Benjamin Sorkin
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This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.
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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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Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt.
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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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The first step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one - America is not the greatest country in the world anymore.
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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 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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When I was a kid, I wanted to be an actor. I was acting in all the school plays. I went to school for acting. I was really sure that that's what I wanted to do.
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