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Writing anything, it sorta starts the way you’d build a castle at the beach. You’re just taking your hands and you’re mounting up sand.

Aaron Sorkin

I think that if I couldn’t write, I would be unemployable.
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Thinking Umemploabl e Would Write Writing
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
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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DifferentTelling might Organization Responsibility Sophisticated Stories
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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Anything Considerable Difficult Fake Learn People Real Rule Tend
As a dramatist, you’re looking for points of friction.
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Dramatist Friction Looking Point
When I feel that something I’m writing is going well, everything in my life is good and the things in my life that aren’t good are completely manageable. If it’s not going well, Miss America could be standing there in a swimsuit handing me a nobel price and I wouldn’t be happy about it
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Academy Award Father Guinea Insist Pig Respect Roxy Sorkin Won
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
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
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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Audience Bad Getting Recipe Trying Usually Want
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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Change Expect Less More Seem Should Thinking
Toby: All right. It couldn’t have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building…is our talent.
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Building Gone Right Somewhere Talent Toby
I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write, but those characters are characters.
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Character Clever Heroic Love People Quick Smart Write Writing
A hero would die for his country, but he’d much rather live for it.
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Country Dies Forever Hero Live
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
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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There are no Asian movie stars
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Asian Movie No Star

Writing anything, it sorta starts the way you’d build a castle at the beach. You’re just taking your hands and you’re mounting up sand.

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