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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.

Aaron Sorkin

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
Never argue with a drunk or a fool.
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Arguing Drunk Fool never
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
We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
AARON SORKIN

Asian Movie No Star
Toby Zeigler: There’s literally no one in the world I don’t hate right now.
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Hate Literally No One Right Toby World
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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King Palace Story Storytelling Thousand Tradition Year
There are no Asian movie stars
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Asian Movie No Star
What’s interesting, is that I’ve found that the more accomplished a director is, the more secure they are in giving direction that sounds incredibly unsophisticated.
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Accomplished Director Giving Interesting Secure Sound
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
It’s a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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Begin Dumb Graduation Life Screw Super Unpredictable Up
She’s a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
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Doctor News Person Pronounce She
Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.
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Conflict Divide Journalism Television
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
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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Beach Castle Hand Sorta Stand Talking Writing
Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I’m going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.
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Academy Award Father Guinea Insist Pig Respect Roxy Sorkin Won
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

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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