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It’s a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

Aaron Sorkin

Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I’m going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.
AARON SORKIN

Anything Considerable Difficult Fake Learn People Real Rule Tend
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
Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That’s what I look for.
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Disagree Look People Scene Two Written
I’m terribly afraid of failure. When your identity is wrapped up in writing and you’ve written something that doesn’t work, it’s a tough pill to swallow.
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Afraid Failure Identity Tough Writing
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’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
A hero would die for his country, but he’d much rather live for it.
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Country Dies Forever Hero Live
I’m a playwright. All I care about is the play being good.
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Be Care Good Play Playwright
This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.
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Bob Fifteen Minute People Serious Time Up
Josh: So, Toby, it’s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it? Toby: God bless America.
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America Country Election Night Rom Sunlight
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
Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
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Age Athlete Better Get Opposite Writer
There are no Asian movie stars
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Change Expect Less More Seem Should Thinking
Honestly, I don’t try to guess at what most people want. I don’t think I’d guess right, and I just think that that’s not a good recipe for storytelling. I try to write what I like, what I think my friends would like.
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Guess Honesty Most People Right Thinking Try Want Writing
My preference would have been to not go back on the air after 911, at all until the time felt right but that wasn’t an option.
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Air Back Been Felt Option Preference Time
There’s a great tradition in storytelling that’s thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that’s really what I wanted to do.
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King Palace Story Storytelling Thousand Tradition Year

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