I’ve never met anyone who has said, “My goal is to make America mediocre.” That’s a kind of hard-right conservative fallacy.
AARON SORKINI’m a registered Republican, I only seem liberal because I believe that hurricanes are caused by high barometric pressure and not gay marriage.
More Aaron Sorkin Quotes
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I don’t think I write differently when I’m writing a screenplay, as opposed to a stage play or a teleplay. Maybe if I were in a film class and there was time to think about it, we could point out differences.
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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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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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The thing I know how to do most is write a play. I came up loving plays and learning about plays and writing plays. I actually feel like an outsider when I’m writing movies and television.
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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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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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Elite is not a bad word, it’s an aspirational one.
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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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Only criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are.
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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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There are no Asian movie stars
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A hero would die for his country, but he’d much rather live for it.
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Toby Zeigler: There’s literally no one in the world I don’t hate right now.
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If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
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