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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
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Television Producer
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New York City
New York
Aaron Benjamin Sorkin
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Elite
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Writing anything, it sorta starts the way you'd build a castle at the beach. You're just taking your hands and you're mounting up sand.
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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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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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This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.
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Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.
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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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I think that if I couldn't write, I would be unemployable.
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When I feel that something I'm writing is going well, everything in my life is good and the things in my life that aren't good are completely manageable. If it's not going well, Miss America could be standing there in a swimsuit handing me a nobel price and I wouldn't be happy about it
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Socializing on the internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
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Tell me what you think and then tell me what the really smart person in the room who disagrees with you thinks.
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I'm sick of girls who don't know how to high-five.
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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
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One of the biggest challenges in the past for me in working on the networks was that audiences have grown accustomed to television being something that keeps you company-background music, something that you have on while you're flipping through a magazine, cooking dinner, talking on the phone, putting the kids to bed.
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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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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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A friend is somebody who says the same things to your face that they would say if you're not in the room.
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With a television series, there's a hard deadline, and so you have to write even when you're not writing well.
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I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says, You may have fooled some of the people some of the time but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent and I'm not your mommy, I'm a white piece of paper, you wanna dance with me? and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.
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Decisions are made by those who show up.
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