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As a dramatist, you're looking for points of friction.
Aaron Sorkin
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Aaron Sorkin
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 9
Actor
Film Actor
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New York City
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Aaron Benjamin Sorkin
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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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If I get an idea for a series that I really like, I'm sure I won't be able to resist coming back and doing it.
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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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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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My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.
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I want to convey that I'm crazy about the Kardashians - but I'm not sure which is which.
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If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
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Socializing on the internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
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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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Film doesn't have to worry. Movies are awesome. There's no war going on, theaters aren't going to lose.
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It was hard saying goodbye to the character and harder saying goodbye to the actor. When rumours started going around that Rob Lowe might be leaving I got an email from Josh Malina asking if I'd be interested in an actor who was cheaper and not as good looking. I wrote back, Always, and that was that.
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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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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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The real problem with all drugs is that they work. Fantastically. They're great, right up until the moment they kill you.
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But HBO is less interested in how many people are watching than in how much the people who are watching are liking the show. They didn't set up their business model to make writers happy. It's just a nice unintended consequence.
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It wouldn't kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.
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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.
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