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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
Aaron Sorkin
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Aaron Sorkin
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 9
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New York City
New York
Aaron Benjamin Sorkin
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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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There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
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Never argue with a drunk or a fool.
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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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As a dramatist, you're looking for points of friction.
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Just to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else.
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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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It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.
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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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I love writing. I'm not particularly comfortable in the actual world - I'm much more comfortable on the page. So if I could have a life where I could just slip the pages under the door and somebody would slip me a meal back, then that would be perfect for me.
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I like workplace shows and White House was a very glamorous workplace to set a show in it appealed to a sense of romanticism and idealism that I have.
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Decisions are made by those who show up. Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world.
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Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
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You can only write, 'Somebody wants something, something else is in their way of getting it.'
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One of the biggest challenges in the past for me in working on the networks was that audiences have grown accustomed to television being something that keeps you company-background music, something that you have on while you're flipping through a magazine, cooking dinner, talking on the phone, putting the kids to bed.
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Decisions are made by those who show up.
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I have a lot of respect for people who are great at ad-libbing, and for writers and directors who are able to create a scene in which that works.
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Perhaps something like Facebook couldn't have been invented by somebody who goes out five nights a week and has a ton of friends and makes friends really easily.
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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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I do enjoy the fact that we don't have a king or queen we have a person with a very unusual temp job for a few years. My favorite moments on the show were always showing the intersection of the person and the job. Any time Bartlet from the West Wing could be something other than the president - a father, or a husband, or a son, or a friend.
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