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Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I'm going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.
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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It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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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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Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.
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Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.
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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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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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Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder.
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