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Tell me what you think and then tell me what the really smart person in the room who disagrees with you thinks.
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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Decisions are made by those who show up.
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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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I don't have personal experience and knowledge about anything but theater. I've been tutored very well on the subject, but ultimately I'm going back to the rules of drama. There are genres that I like as an audience member that I can't write as a writer. I can't write crime, and I like a good thriller as much as anybody.
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If you can socialize from the privacy of your desk at night in a dark room, you can be a smoother, cooler, funnier, sexy, more everything person than you actually are in real life.
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When I feel that something I'm writing is going well, everything in my life is good and the things in my life that aren't good are completely manageable. If it's not going well, Miss America could be standing there in a swimsuit handing me a nobel price and I wouldn't be happy about it
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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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You're going to fall down, but the world doesn't care how many times you fall down, as long as it's one fewer than the numbers of times you get back up.
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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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The guy who wins the Oscar for Best Actor has a much higher bar to clear than the woman who wins best actress.
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Socializing on the internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
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I'm a playwright. All I care about is the play being good.
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