black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

To use a basketball metaphor, West Wing cast was a group that liked to pass as much as they liked to shoot.

Aaron Sorkin

With a television series, there’s a hard deadline, and so you have to write even when you’re not writing well.
AARON SORKIN

Deadline Hard Not Well Series Television Write 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.
AARON SORKIN

Census Certain Episode Fall People Sampling Statis Versus Year
To use a basketball metaphor, West Wing cast was a group that liked to pass as much as they liked to shoot.
AARON SORKIN

Basketball Group Like Metaphor Pass West Wing
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.
AARON SORKIN

Afraid Failure Identity Tough Writing
I’m a registered Republican, I only seem liberal because I believe that hurricanes are caused by high barometric pressure and not gay marriage.
AARON SORKIN

Believe Biometric Gay Liberal Pressure Republican
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.
AARON SORKIN

Afraid Terrible Trying Walking Wall Writing
I’m a registered Republican, I only seem liberal because I believe that hurricanes are caused by high barometric pressure and not gay marriage.
AARON SORKIN

Barometric Believe Gay Hurricane Liberal Pressure Registered Republican
Elite is not a bad word, it’s an aspirational one.
AARON SORKIN

Aspiration Bad Word Elite One
Decisions are made by those who show up. Don’t ever forget that you’re a citizen of this world.
AARON SORKIN

Citizen Decision Forget World
Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.
AARON SORKIN

Conflict Divide Journalism Television
Josh: So, Toby, it’s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it? Toby: God bless America.
AARON SORKIN

America Country Election Night Rom Sunlight
I’ve never met anyone who has said, “My goal is to make America mediocre.” That’s a kind of hard-right conservative fallacy.
AARON SORKIN

America Anyone Conservation Conservative Country Goal Hard Right Mediocre Met
The guy who wins the Oscar for Best Actor has a much higher bar to clear than the woman who wins best actress.
AARON SORKIN

Actress Bar Clear Guy Oscar Winning Woman
Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.
AARON SORKIN

Audience Bad Getting Recipe Trying Usually Want
She’s a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
AARON SORKIN

Doctor News Person Pronounce She
That’s a very real feeling – that I don’t have a story to tell. I’m not a pure storyteller. I have a tough time with story.
AARON SORKIN

Feeling Pure Real Storyteller Time Tough

To use a basketball metaphor, West Wing cast was a group that liked to pass as much as they liked to shoot.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

To use a basketball metaphor, West Wing cast was a group that liked to pass as much as they liked to shoot.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Aaron Sorkin Quotes