Only criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are.
AARON SORKIN- I like workplace shows and White House was a very glamorous workplace to set a show in; it appealed to a sense of romanticism and idealism that I have.
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I like workplace shows and White House was a very glamorous workplace to set a show in; it appealed to a sense of romanticism and idealism that I have.
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Only criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are.
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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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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.
AARON SORKINMy 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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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.
AARON SORKINThe 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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Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.
AARON SORKINConflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.
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I think that if I couldn’t write, I would be unemployable.
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Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I’m going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.
AARON SORKINRoxy 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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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.
AARON SORKINThat’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 want to convey that I’m crazy about the Kardashians – but I’m not sure which is which.
AARON SORKINI want to convey that I’m crazy about the Kardashians – but I’m not sure which is which.
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It wouldn’t kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.
AARON SORKINIt wouldn’t kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.
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Film doesn’t have to worry. Movies are awesome. There’s no war going on, theaters aren’t going to lose.
AARON SORKINFilm doesn’t have to worry. Movies are awesome. There’s no war going on, theaters aren’t going to lose.
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She’s a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
AARON SORKINShe’s a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
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We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
AARON SORKINWe live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
AARON SORKINWriters are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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Just to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else.
AARON SORKINJust to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else.
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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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