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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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Aaron Sorkin
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 9
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
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Screenwriter
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Television Producer
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New York City
New York
Aaron Benjamin Sorkin
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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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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'm a playwright. All I care about is the play being good.
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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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