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She’s a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.

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.
AARON SORKIN

Argument Believe Center Side Thinking Two Watching
Honestly, I don’t try to guess at what most people want. I don’t think I’d guess right, and I just think that that’s not a good recipe for storytelling. I try to write what I like, what I think my friends would like.
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Guess Honesty Most People Right Thinking Try 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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Disagree Look People Scene Two Written
Decisions are made by those who show up. Don’t ever forget that you’re a citizen of this world.
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Citizen Decision Forget World
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 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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Consider Dialogue Important Intrusion Mean Necessary Plot Snappy Writing
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
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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Guarded Gun Live Men Military Wall World
The stuff that I write doesn’t work very well as background music. You have to watch it from beginning to end and pay attention as if you were watching a play.
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Background Beginning End Music Play Stuff Watch Writing
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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Afraid Terrible Trying Walking Wall Writing
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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Communication Large People Populated Skill Terrific
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.
AARON SORKIN

Boys Force Helem Meryl Mirren Play Role Streep Tour
If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
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Change Mind Obligation Strongly Trying
If I get an idea for a series that I really like, I’m sure I won’t be able to resist coming back and doing it.
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Able Back Coming Idea Resist Series Sure
We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.
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Asian Movie No Star
If you can socialize from the privacy of your desk at night in a dark room, you can be a smoother, cooler, funnier, sexy, more everything person than you actually are in real life.
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Cooler Dark Desk Night Privacy Real Sexy Smoother Socialize

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