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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.
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Aaron Sorkin
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 9
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I do enjoy the fact that we don't have a king or queen we have a person with a very unusual temp job for a few years. My favorite moments on the show were always showing the intersection of the person and the job. Any time Bartlet from the West Wing could be something other than the president - a father, or a husband, or a son, or a friend.
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