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Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder.
Aaron Sorkin
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Aaron Sorkin
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 9
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Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
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New York City
New York
Aaron Benjamin Sorkin
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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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