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People who don't know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.
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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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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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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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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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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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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Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world, and there are things you can do to lift the human spirit, things that are easy, things that are free, things that you can do every day: civility, respect, kindness, character.
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It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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The hardest thing for me is getting started. If I'm writing a script, really 90 per cent of it would be just walking around, climbing the walls, just trying to put the idea together. Then the final 10 per cent would be writing it.
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