Elite is not a bad word, it’s an aspirational one.
AARON SORKINMy resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.
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I’m a playwright. All I care about is the play being good.
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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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I don’t believe there are two sides to every argument. I think the facts are the center. And watching the news abandon the facts in favor of “fairness” is what’s troubling to me.
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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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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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My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.
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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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Decisions are made by those who show up. Don’t ever forget that you’re a citizen of this world.
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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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Decisions are made by those who show up. Don’t ever forget that you’re a citizen of this world.
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When I feel that something I’m writing is going well, everything in my life is good and the things in my life that aren’t good are completely manageable. If it’s not going well, Miss America could be standing there in a swimsuit handing me a nobel price and I wouldn’t be happy about it
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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 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’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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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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