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Aaron Sorkin

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
I’ll get cast occasionally as sort of the jerk version of myself, and I have fun doing that. But it’s really better for everyone if I stay behind the camera.
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Better Camera Cast Doing Everyone Fun Jerk Occasionally Really
This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.
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Bob Fifteen Minute People Serious Time Up
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
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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Air Back Been Felt Option Preference Time
What’s interesting, is that I’ve found that the more accomplished a director is, the more secure they are in giving direction that sounds incredibly unsophisticated.
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Accomplished Director Giving Interesting Secure Sound
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
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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Entertainment Foremost Important West Wing
It’s a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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Begin Dumb Graduation Life Screw Super Unpredictable Up
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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America Anyone Conservation Conservative Country Goal Hard Right Mediocre Met
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
As an audience member, I like the sound of something that’s been written – I like it to sound written. And then, of course, you can’t do it without the musicians who can play it.
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Audience Member Musician Play Sound
Only criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are.
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Adulters Criminal Hide Identity Should
As a dramatist, you’re looking for points of friction.
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Dramatist Friction Looking Point
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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America Country Greatest Recognizing World
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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Believe Black Issue Least Presenting White World
The guy who wins the Oscar for Best Actor has a much higher bar to clear than the woman who wins best actress.
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Actress Bar Clear Guy Oscar Winning Woman
There are television critics, movie critics, and theater critics too who I like and who I follow and I get genuinely bummed when they don’t like something that I’ve written because I usually agree with them.
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Critic Follow Genuinely Television Theater
And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.
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Lake Size Tahoe Thin Wheat
I think that if I couldn’t write, I would be unemployable.
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Thinking Umemploabl e Would Write Writing
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
Elite is not a bad word, it’s an aspirational one.
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Aspiration Bad Word Elite One
I’m sick of girls who don’t know how to high-five.
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Five Girl High Know Sick
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
President Bartlet: There’s a delegation of cardiologists having their pictures taken in the Blue Room. You wouldn’t think you could find a group of people more arrogant than the fifteen of us, but there they are, right upstairs in the Blue Room.
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Blue Cardiologist Delegation Picture President Room Taken Thinking
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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Disagree Look People Scene Two Written
People who don’t know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.
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Anything Considerable Difficult Fake Learn People Real Rule Tend

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