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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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Aaron Sorkin
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 9
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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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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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Toby: All right. It couldn't have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building...is our talent.
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It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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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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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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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. 'The West Wing' isn't meant to be good for you.
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Decisions are made by those who show up. Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world.
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Only criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are.
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The first step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one - America is not the greatest country in the world anymore.
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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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The guy who wins the Oscar for Best Actor has a much higher bar to clear than the woman who wins best actress.
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Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren't that many tour-de-force roles out there for women.
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This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.
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There are television critics, movie critics, and theater critics too who I like and who I follow and I get genuinely bummed when they don't like something that I've written because I usually agree with them.
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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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I think that if I couldn't write, I would be unemployable.
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Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt.
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