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Aaron Sorkin
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 9
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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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Josh: So, Toby, it’s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it? Toby: God bless America.
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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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It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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The real problem with all drugs is that they work. Fantastically. They're great, right up until the moment they kill you.
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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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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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Only criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are.
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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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As a dramatist, you're looking for points of friction.
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It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. 'The West Wing' isn't meant to be good for you.
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But HBO is less interested in how many people are watching than in how much the people who are watching are liking the show. They didn't set up their business model to make writers happy. It's just a nice unintended consequence.
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I'm terribly afraid of failure. When your identity is wrapped up in writing and you've written something that doesn't work, it's a tough pill to swallow.
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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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A hero would die for his country, but he'd much rather live for it.
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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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Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder.
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Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
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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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I'm sick of girls who don't know how to high-five.
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