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The hardest thing for me is getting started. If I'm writing a script, really 90 per cent of it would be just walking around, climbing the walls, just trying to put the idea together. Then the final 10 per cent would be writing it.

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