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Elite is not a bad word, it's an aspirational one.
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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When I was a kid, I wanted to be an actor. I was acting in all the school plays. I went to school for acting. I was really sure that that's what I wanted to do.
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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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Music is what mathematics does on a Saturday night.
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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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There's that process of writing it - then you come out of your room into the sunlight, and you now have to complete the circuit and make the connection finally with the audience.
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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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The downside to series television is that the schedule is ferocious. It constantly feels like you have a midterm due that you haven't started yet.
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As a dramatist, you're looking for points of friction.
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I want to convey that I'm crazy about the Kardashians - but I'm not sure which is which.
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And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.
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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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Decisions are made by those who show up. Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world.
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You can only write, 'Somebody wants something, something else is in their way of getting it.'
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Honestly, I don't try to guess at what most people want. I don't think I'd guess right, and I just think that that's not a good recipe for storytelling. I try to write what I like, what I think my friends would like.
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It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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I love writing. I'm not particularly comfortable in the actual world - I'm much more comfortable on the page. So if I could have a life where I could just slip the pages under the door and somebody would slip me a meal back, then that would be perfect for me.
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My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.
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She's a person the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
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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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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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