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It seems to me that more and more we’ve come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.

Aaron Sorkin

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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It seems to me that more and more we’ve come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.
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Argument Believe Center Side Thinking Two Watching
I don’t believe there are two sides to every argument. I think the facts are the center. And watching the news abandon the facts in favor of “fairness” is what’s troubling to me.
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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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I’m a registered Republican, I only seem liberal because I believe that hurricanes are caused by high barometric pressure and not gay marriage.
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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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The stuff that I write doesn’t work very well as background music. You have to watch it from beginning to end and pay attention as if you were watching a play.
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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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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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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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When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that’s not going to be me.
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People who don’t know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That’s what I look for.
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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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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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