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Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I’m going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.

Aaron Sorkin

Decisions are made by those who show up. Don’t ever forget that you’re a citizen of this world.
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Citizen Decision Forget World
There are television critics, movie critics, and theater critics too who I like and who I follow and I get genuinely bummed when they don’t like something that I’ve written because I usually agree with them.
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Critic Follow Genuinely Television Theater
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
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
Elite is not a bad word, it’s an aspirational one.
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Aspiration Bad Word Elite One
I don’t think I write differently when I’m writing a screenplay, as opposed to a stage play or a teleplay. Maybe if I were in a film class and there was time to think about it, we could point out differences.
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Class Differently Opposed Screenplay Stage Teleplay Thinking Write Writing
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
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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Audience Bad Getting Recipe Trying Usually Want
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
Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I’m writing episode seven now and couldn’t tell you what happens in episode eight.
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Bone Close Eight Episode Must Script Tell Writing
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
To use a basketball metaphor, West Wing cast was a group that liked to pass as much as they liked to shoot.
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Basketball Group Like Metaphor Pass West Wing
If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
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Change Mind Obligation Strongly Trying
It wouldn’t kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.
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Film Kill Newspapers Pick Watch
I think that if I couldn’t write, I would be unemployable.
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Thinking Umemploabl e Would Write 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

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