We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
AARON SORKINOnly criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are.
More Aaron Sorkin Quotes
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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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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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She’s a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
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My preference would have been to not go back on the air after 911, at all until the time felt right but that wasn’t an option.
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I’m terribly afraid of failure. When your identity is wrapped up in writing and you’ve written something that doesn’t work, it’s a tough pill to swallow.
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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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Decisions are made by those who show up. Don’t ever forget that you’re a citizen of this world.
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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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I’m sick of girls who don’t know how to high-five.
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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’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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My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.
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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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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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