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Aaron Sorkin

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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Change Expect Less More Seem Should Thinking
I don’t think I write differently when I’m writing a screenplay, as opposed to a stage play or a teleplay. Maybe if I were in a film class and there was time to think about it, we could point out differences.
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Class Differently Opposed Screenplay Stage Teleplay Thinking Write Writing
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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Glamorous House Something White Workplace Written
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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Believe Biometric Gay Liberal Pressure Republican
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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Disagree Look People Scene Two Written
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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It wouldn’t kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.
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Film Kill Newspapers Pick Watch
The thing I know how to do most is write a play. I came up loving plays and learning about plays and writing plays. I actually feel like an outsider when I’m writing movies and television.
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Know Loving Most Movie Play Television Writing
Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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Age Athlete Better Get Opposite Writer
When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that’s not going to be me.
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Direct Directors Going Not Want Writing
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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And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.
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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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Aspirationally Hero Lies Lying Pulse Resting Romantically Taste Writing
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
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

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