She’s a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
AARON SORKINYou know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we’re presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated – not nearly as black and white as we’re led to believe.
More Aaron Sorkin Quotes
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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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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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There are no Asian movie stars
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If you can socialize from the privacy of your desk at night in a dark room, you can be a smoother, cooler, funnier, sexy, more everything person than you actually are in real life.
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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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Honestly, I don’t try to guess at what most people want. I don’t think I’d guess right, and I just think that that’s not a good recipe for storytelling. I try to write what I like, what I think my friends would like.
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Toby Zeigler: There’s literally no one in the world I don’t hate right now.
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Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren’t that many tour-de-force roles out there for women.
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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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I’m a playwright. All I care about is the play being good.
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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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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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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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There are no Asian movie stars
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Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I’m going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.
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