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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.

Aaron Sorkin

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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Boys Force Helem Meryl Mirren Play Role Streep Tour
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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Disagree Look People Scene Two Written
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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There are no Asian movie stars
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Change Expect Less More Seem Should Thinking
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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Disagree Look People Scene Two Written
Elite is not a bad word, it’s an aspirational one.
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Aspiration Bad Word Elite One
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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Afraid Terrible Trying Walking Wall Writing
Just to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else.
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Alan Clarify Division Doe Labor Show Writing
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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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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Guess Honesty Most People Right Thinking Try Want Writing
I want to convey that I’m crazy about the Kardashians – but I’m not sure which is which.
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Convey Crazy Kardashian Not Sure Want
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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A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.
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DifferentTelling might Organization Responsibility Sophisticated Stories
She’s a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
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Doctor News Person Pronounce She
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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If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
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