She’s a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
AARON SORKINTrying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.
More Aaron Sorkin Quotes
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It wouldn’t kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.
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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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A hero would die for his country, but he’d much rather live for it.
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It’s a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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I think that if I couldn’t write, I would be unemployable.
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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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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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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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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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My preference would have been to not go back on the air after 911, at all until the time felt right but that wasn’t an option.
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The stuff that I write doesn’t work very well as background music. You have to watch it from beginning to end and pay attention as if you were watching a play.
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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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It’s populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.
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If I get an idea for a series that I really like, I’m sure I won’t be able to resist coming back and doing it.
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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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