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.
AARON SORKINIf 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.
More Aaron Sorkin Quotes
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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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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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Never argue with a drunk or a fool.
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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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We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
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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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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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A hero would die for his country, but he’d much rather live for it.
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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 resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.
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Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.
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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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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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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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There’s a great tradition in storytelling that’s thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that’s really what I wanted to do.
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