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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
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Aaron Benjamin Sorkin
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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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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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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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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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It wouldn't kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.
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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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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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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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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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I've never met anyone who has said, My goal is to make America mediocre. That's a kind of hard-right conservative fallacy.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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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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Toby Zeigler: There's literally no one in the world I don't hate right now.
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Decisions are made by those who show up.
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Film doesn't have to worry. Movies are awesome. There's no war going on, theaters aren't going to lose.
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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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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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Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren't that many tour-de-force roles out there for women.
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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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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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