I have a lot of respect for people who are great at ad-libbing, and for writers and directors who are able to create a scene in which that works.
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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Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.
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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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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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There are no Asian movie stars
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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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To use a basketball metaphor, West Wing cast was a group that liked to pass as much as they liked to shoot.
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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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Only criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are.
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Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word ‘census’, and people fall asleep.
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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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With a television series, there’s a hard deadline, and so you have to write even when you’re not writing well.
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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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Elite is not a bad word, it’s an aspirational one.
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That’s a very real feeling – that I don’t have a story to tell. I’m not a pure storyteller. I have a tough time with story.
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President Bartlet: There’s a delegation of cardiologists having their pictures taken in the Blue Room. You wouldn’t think you could find a group of people more arrogant than the fifteen of us, but there they are, right upstairs in the Blue Room.
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