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Aaron Sorkin

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
There are television critics, movie critics, and theater critics too who I like and who I follow and I get genuinely bummed when they don’t like something that I’ve written because I usually agree with them.
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Critic Follow Genuinely Television Theater
When I was a kid, I wanted to be an actor. I was acting in all the school plays. I went to school for acting. I was really sure that that’s what I wanted to do.
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Actor Kid Play Really School Wanted Went
Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I’m going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.
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Academy Award Father Guinea Insist Pig Respect Roxy Sorkin Won
My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.
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Aspirationally Hero Lies Lying Pulse Resting Romantically Taste Writing
I’m sick of girls who don’t know how to high-five.
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Five Girl High Know Sick
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.
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Boys Force Helem Meryl Mirren Play Role Streep Tour
I think that if I couldn’t write, I would be unemployable.
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Thinking Umemploabl e Would Write Writing
Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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Age Athlete Better Get Opposite Writer
Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.
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Conflict Divide Journalism Television
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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Believe Biometric Gay Liberal Pressure Republican
Elite is not a bad word, it’s an aspirational one.
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Aspiration Bad Word Elite One
She’s a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
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Doctor News Person Pronounce She
It’s important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. ‘The West Wing’ isn’t meant to be good for you.
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Entertainment Foremost Important West Wing
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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Better Camera Cast Doing Everyone Fun Jerk Occasionally Really
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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Feeling Pure Real Storyteller Time Tough
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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Glamorous House Something White Workplace Written
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.
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Believe Black Issue Least Presenting White 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
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
The guy who wins the Oscar for Best Actor has a much higher bar to clear than the woman who wins best actress.
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Actress Bar Clear Guy Oscar Winning Woman
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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Argument Believe Center Side Thinking Two Watching
As a dramatist, you’re looking for points of friction.
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Dramatist Friction Looking Point
Never argue with a drunk or a fool.
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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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I think it’s up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch.
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Compelling Enough People Stuff Thinking Watch Writing
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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America Conservation Conservative Goal Hard Kind Right

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