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When I was a kid, I wanted to be an actor. I was acting in all the school plays. I went to school for acting. I was really sure that that's what I wanted to do.

Aaron Sorkin

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Aaron Sorkin
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 9
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Aaron Benjamin Sorkin
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That's a very real feeling - that I don't have a story to tell. I'm not a pure storyteller. I have a tough time with story.
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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 love writing. I'm not particularly comfortable in the actual world - I'm much more comfortable on the page. So if I could have a life where I could just slip the pages under the door and somebody would slip me a meal back, then that would be perfect for me.
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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'm not interested in the difference between good and bad, I'm interested in the differences between good and great.
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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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This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.
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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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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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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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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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It's certainly easy for me to make a fictional character mad about something. I can get them angry about something that I'm relatively indifferent about, just because I'm not educated on it, if I go to someone who is educated about it and is passionate about it. I find a point of fiction and then give it to them.
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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 like workplace shows and White House was a very glamorous workplace to set a show in it appealed to a sense of romanticism and idealism that I have.
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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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To use a basketball metaphor, West Wing cast was a group that liked to pass as much as they liked to shoot.
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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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