You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we’re presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated – not nearly as black and white as we’re led to believe.
AARON SORKINNever argue with a drunk or a fool.
More Aaron Sorkin Quotes
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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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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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I think that if I couldn’t write, I would be unemployable.
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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.
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Decisions are made by those who show up. Don’t ever forget that you’re a citizen of this world.
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There are no Asian movie stars
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Writing anything, it sorta starts the way you’d build a castle at the beach. You’re just taking your hands and you’re mounting up sand.
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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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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.
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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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If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
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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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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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Just to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else.
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President Bartlet: There’s a delegation of cardiologists having their pictures taken in the Blue Room. You wouldn’t think you could find a group of people more arrogant than the fifteen of us, but there they are, right upstairs in the Blue Room.
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