If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
AARON SORKINCertainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word ‘census’, and people fall asleep.
More Aaron Sorkin Quotes
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Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren’t that many tour-de-force roles out there for women.
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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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A hero would die for his country, but he’d much rather live for it.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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With a television series, there’s a hard deadline, and so you have to write even when you’re not writing well.
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She’s a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
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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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If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
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Toby: All right. It couldn’t have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building…is our talent.
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