The first step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one – America is not the greatest country in the world anymore.
AARON SORKINHelen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren’t that many tour-de-force roles out there for women.
More Aaron Sorkin Quotes
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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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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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That’s a very real feeling – that I don’t have a story to tell. I’m not a pure storyteller. I have a tough time with story.
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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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When I feel that something I’m writing is going well, everything in my life is good and the things in my life that aren’t good are completely manageable. If it’s not going well, Miss America could be standing there in a swimsuit handing me a nobel price and I wouldn’t be happy about it
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I don’t think I write differently when I’m writing a screenplay, as opposed to a stage play or a teleplay. Maybe if I were in a film class and there was time to think about it, we could point out differences.
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I think it’s up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch.
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It’s a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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I don’t believe there are two sides to every argument. I think the facts are the center. And watching the news abandon the facts in favor of “fairness” is what’s troubling to me.
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It’s important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. ‘The West Wing’ isn’t meant to be good for you.
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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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My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.
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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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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.
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There’s that process of writing it – then you come out of your room into the sunlight, and you now have to complete the circuit and make the connection finally with the audience.
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This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.
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The thing I know how to do most is write a play. I came up loving plays and learning about plays and writing plays. I actually feel like an outsider when I’m writing movies and television.
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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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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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Never argue with a drunk or a fool.
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I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write, but those characters are characters.
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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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I think that if I couldn’t write, I would be unemployable.
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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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My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.
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And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.
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