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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
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Playwright
Scenographer
Screenwriter
Showrunner
Television Producer
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New York City
New York
Aaron Benjamin Sorkin
Elite
Elites
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I don’t believe there are two sides to every argument. I think the facts are the center. And watching the news abandon the facts in favor of “fairness” is what’s troubling to me.
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You can only write, 'Somebody wants something, something else is in their way of getting it.'
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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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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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If I get an idea for a series that I really like, I'm sure I won't be able to resist coming back and doing it.
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An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.
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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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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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And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.
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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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That's a very real feeling - that I don't have a story to tell. I'm not a pure storyteller. I have a tough time with story.
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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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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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I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue. But when I'm writing, the way the words sound is as important to me as what they mean.
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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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If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
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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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Toby: All right. It couldn't have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building...is our talent.
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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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Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.
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