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People who don’t know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.

Aaron Sorkin

As a dramatist, you’re looking for points of friction.
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Dramatist Friction Looking Point
Elite is not a bad word, it’s an aspirational one.
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Aspiration Bad Word Elite One
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
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.
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Afraid Terrible Trying Walking Wall Writing
Decisions are made by those who show up. Don’t ever forget that you’re a citizen of this world.
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Citizen Decision Forget World
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
The downside to series television is that the schedule is ferocious. It constantly feels like you have a midterm due that you haven’t started yet.
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Downside Ferocious Like Schedule Series Television You
We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
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Asian Movie No Star
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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Boys Force Helem Meryl Mirren Play Role Streep Tour
If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
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Change Mind Obligation Strongly Trying
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
When I was a kid, I wanted to be an actor. I was acting in all the school plays. I went to school for acting. I was really sure that that’s what I wanted to do.
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Actor Kid Play Really School Wanted Went
If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
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Change Mind Obligation Strongly Trying
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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Feeling Pure Real Storyteller Time Tough
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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Background Beginning End Music Play Stuff Watch 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 Build Hand Mountain Sorta Talking Writing

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