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.
AARON SORKINDecisions are made by those who show up. Don’t ever forget that you’re a citizen of this world.
More Aaron Sorkin Quotes
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I’m sick of girls who don’t know how to high-five.
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Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I’m writing episode seven now and couldn’t tell you what happens in episode eight.
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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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A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.
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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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A hero would die for his country, but he’d much rather live for it.
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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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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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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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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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She’s a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
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I’m a playwright. All I care about is the play being good.
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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.
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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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