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Aaron Sorkin

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.
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Feeling Pure Real Storyteller Time Tough
The thing I know how to do most is write a play. I came up loving plays and learning about plays and writing plays. I actually feel like an outsider when I’m writing movies and television.
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Know Loving Most Movie Play Television 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.
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Believe Biometric Gay Liberal Pressure Republican
When I feel that something I’m writing is going well, everything in my life is good and the things in my life that aren’t good are completely manageable. If it’s not going well, Miss America could be standing there in a swimsuit handing me a nobel price and I wouldn’t be happy about it
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Academy Award Father Guinea Insist Pig Respect Roxy Sorkin Won
I’ll get cast occasionally as sort of the jerk version of myself, and I have fun doing that. But it’s really better for everyone if I stay behind the camera.
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Better Camera Cast Doing Everyone Fun Jerk Occasionally Really
The guy who wins the Oscar for Best Actor has a much higher bar to clear than the woman who wins best actress.
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Actress Bar Clear Guy Oscar Winning Woman
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
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
Toby: All right. It couldn’t have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building…is our talent.
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Building Gone Right Somewhere Talent Toby
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
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
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 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
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
Only criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are.
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Adulters Criminal Hide Identity Should
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

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