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Aaron Sorkin
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 9
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Playwright
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Screenwriter
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Television Producer
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New York City
New York
Aaron Benjamin Sorkin
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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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I'd been concerned all along that the character of the president in the West Wing pilot would throw the ensemble out of whack, that that character would simply take up all the oxygen in a room. I wanted to hold off bringing this character in until the last possible moment.
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Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
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I think that if I couldn't write, I would be unemployable.
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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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You can only write, 'Somebody wants something, something else is in their way of getting it.'
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Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.
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Elite is not a bad word, it's an aspirational one.
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It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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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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My preference would have been to not go back on the air after 9\11, at all until the time felt right but that wasn't an option.
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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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If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
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It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.
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The thing I know how to do most is write a play. I came up loving plays and learning about plays and writing plays. I actually feel like an outsider when I'm writing movies and television.
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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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It was hard saying goodbye to the character and harder saying goodbye to the actor. When rumours started going around that Rob Lowe might be leaving I got an email from Josh Malina asking if I'd be interested in an actor who was cheaper and not as good looking. I wrote back, Always, and that was that.
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Only criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are.
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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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A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.
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