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Aaron Sorkin

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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Afraid Terrible Trying Walking Wall Writing
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
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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Air Back Been Felt Option Preference Time
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 consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue. But when I’m writing, the way the words sound is as important to me as what they mean.
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Consider Dialogue Important Intrusion Mean Necessary Plot Snappy 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
Only criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are.
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Adulters Criminal Hide Identity Should
I’m a playwright. All I care about is the play being good.
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Be Care Good Play Playwright
Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.
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Conflict Divide Journalism Television
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
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 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
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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Disagree Look People Scene Two Written
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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Communication Large People Populated Skill Terrific
When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that’s not going to be me.
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Direct Directors Going Not Want Writing
She’s a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
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Doctor News Person Pronounce She

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