It’s populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.
AARON SORKINIf 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.
More Aaron Sorkin Quotes
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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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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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A hero would die for his country, but he’d much rather live for it.
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Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.
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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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Decisions are made by those who show up. Don’t ever forget that you’re a citizen of this world.
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There are no Asian movie stars
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My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.
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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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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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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 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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Toby: All right. It couldn’t have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building…is our talent.
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Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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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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