It wouldn’t kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.
AARON SORKINIt’s populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.
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It’s a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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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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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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I think that if I couldn’t write, I would be unemployable.
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This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.
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We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
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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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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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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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I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write, but those characters are characters.
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I want to convey that I’m crazy about the Kardashians – but I’m not sure which is which.
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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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I’m sick of girls who don’t know how to high-five.
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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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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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