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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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Aaron Sorkin
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 9
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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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