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Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.

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Aaron Sorkin
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 9
Actor
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New York City
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Aaron Benjamin Sorkin
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President Bartlet: There's a delegation of cardiologists having their pictures taken in the Blue Room. You wouldn't think you could find a group of people more arrogant than the fifteen of us, but there they are, right upstairs in the Blue Room.
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Stupid people surround themselves with smart people. Smart people surround themselves with smart people who disagree with them.
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And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.
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When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me.
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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 don't have personal experience and knowledge about anything but theater. I've been tutored very well on the subject, but ultimately I'm going back to the rules of drama. There are genres that I like as an audience member that I can't write as a writer. I can't write crime, and I like a good thriller as much as anybody.
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I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write, but those characters are characters.
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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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It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.
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Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I'm going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.
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Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census', and people fall asleep.
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As an audience member, I like the sound of something that's been written - I like it to sound written. And then, of course, you can't do it without the musicians who can play it.
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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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I have a lot of respect for people who are great at ad-libbing, and for writers and directors who are able to create a scene in which that works.
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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 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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I'm a registered Republican, I only seem liberal because I believe that hurricanes are caused by high barometric pressure and not gay marriage.
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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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Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
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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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