Never argue with a drunk or a fool.
AARON SORKINI’ve never met anyone who has said, “My goal is to make America mediocre.” That’s a kind of hard-right conservative fallacy.
More Aaron Sorkin Quotes
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There are no Asian movie stars
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I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue. But when I’m writing, the way the words sound is as important to me as what they mean.
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I’m a playwright. All I care about is the play being good.
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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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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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There’s that process of writing it – then you come out of your room into the sunlight, and you now have to complete the circuit and make the connection finally with the audience.
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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.
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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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A hero would die for his country, but he’d much rather live for it.
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When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that’s not going to be me.
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I think that if I couldn’t write, I would be unemployable.
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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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There’s a great tradition in storytelling that’s thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that’s really what I wanted to do.
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Toby Zeigler: There’s literally no one in the world I don’t hate right now.
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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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