Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I’m going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.
AARON SORKINElite is not a bad word, it’s an aspirational one.
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Only criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are.
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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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Toby: All right. It couldn’t have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building…is our talent.
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The first step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one – America is not the greatest country in the world anymore.
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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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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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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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My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.
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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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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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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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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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Decisions are made by those who show up. Don’t ever forget that you’re a citizen of this world.
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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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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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