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Aaron Sorkin

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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Deadline Hard Not Well Series Television Write Writing
Toby: All right. It couldn’t have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building…is our talent.
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There’s that process of writing it – then you come out of your room into the sunlight, and you now have to complete the circuit and make the connection finally with the audience.
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Audience Circuit Complete Connection Process Room Sunlight Writing
Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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Age Athlete Better Get Opposite Writer
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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Character Clever Heroic Love People Quick Smart Write Writing
Film doesn’t have to worry. Movies are awesome. There’s no war going on, theaters aren’t going to lose.
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Awesome Film Going Movie Theatre War Worry
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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Cooler Dark Desk Night Privacy Real Sexy Smoother Socialize
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
This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.
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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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Argument Believe Center Side Thinking Two Watching
If I get an idea for a series that I really like, I’m sure I won’t be able to resist coming back and doing it.
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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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Afraid Failure Identity Tough Writing
Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word ‘census’, and people fall asleep.
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I grew up in the theatre. It’s where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.
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Drama Perfection Start Television Theatre Writing
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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Hate Literally No One Right Toby World

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