Aaron Sorkin Quotes - Page 2

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• Mrs. Landingham, does the President have free time this morning? The President has nothing but free time, Toby. Right now he's in the residence eating Cheerios and enjoying Regis and Kathie Lee. Should I get him for you? Sarcasm's a disturbing thing coming from a woman of your age, Mrs. Landingham. What age would that be, Toby? Late twenties? Atta boy.

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  Morning, Sarcasm, Boys

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• When you're writing a movie or a play and writing isn't going well, which is for me the normal condition - it's an exceptional day when suddenly I've got something and it's going well - you can call the studio or the producer or whoever is waiting for it and say, "I know I said I was going to have it in by the end of the summer.

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  Summer, Writing, Play

  Source: www.esquire.com

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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.

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  Beach, Writing, Hands

  "The West Wing/ Noël". Drama, Season 2, Episode 10, 2000.

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• I'd been concerned all along that the character of the president in the West Wing pilot would throw the ensemble out of whack, that that character would simply take up all the oxygen in a room. I wanted to hold off bringing this character in until the last possible moment.

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  Character, President, Moments

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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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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  Lying, Hero, Writing

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• Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age

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  Athlete, Opposites, Get Better

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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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  America, Goal, Conservative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you close your eyes you can imagine the hackers sitting in a room, combing through the documents to find the ones that will draw the most blood. And in a room next door are American journalists doing the same thing. As demented and criminal as it is, at least the hackers are doing it for a cause. The press is doing it for a nickel.

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  Eye, Doors, Blood

  "The Sony Hack and the Yellow Pres" by Aaron Sorkin, www.nytimes.com. December 14, 2014.

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• 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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  Writing, Life Is Good, America

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• 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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  Father, Awards, Pigs

  "Oscars: As It Happened". Oscar Acceptance Speech, www.empireonline.com. February 28, 2011.

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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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  Real, People, Fake

  "The West Wing Scriptbook". Book by Aaron Sorkin, 2003.

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• There are no Asian movie stars

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  Stars, Asian, Movie Star

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• I had never thought of doing television. But my agent wanted me to meet John Wells, who had had a lot of success producing ER and China Beach. The night before the meeting, some friends were over for dinner and Akiva Goldsman and I slipped downstairs to the basement so we could sneak a cigarette. He said, "You know what would make a good television series? That." And he was pointing at The American President poster. He said, "There doesn't have to be a romance, just focus on a senior staffer."

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  Senior, Beach, Night

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• It was hard saying goodbye to the character and harder saying goodbye to the actor. When rumours started going around that Rob Lowe might be leaving I got an email from Josh Malina asking if I'd be interested in an actor who was cheaper and not as good looking. I wrote back, "Always", and that was that.

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  Goodbye, Character, Leaving

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• Larry David called me and said, "You can never watch The West Wing again. Either the show is going to be great without you and you're going to be miserable, or the show is going to be less than great without you and you're going to be miserable." So I had them send a tape of the first episode that I didn't do. I put it in the VCR and I don't think I got 15 seconds in before I leapt up and slammed it off! It felt like I was watching somebody make out with my girlfriend. I've never seen a West Wing episode in seasons five, six or seven.

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  Girlfriend, Thinking, Miserable

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• Only criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are.

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  Should Have, Criminals, Should

  "Now That You Mention It, Rock Hudson Did Seem Gay" by Aaron Sorkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 12, 2010.

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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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  Thinking, Should, Seems

  "Aaron Sorkin's Syracuse commencement speech repeated lots of lines he's used before" by Geoff Herbert, www.syracuse.com. May 17, 2012.

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• 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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  Believe, Thinking, Two Sides

  "TV’s Best Talker: Aaron Sorkin on The Newsroom, Sorkinism, and Sounding Smart". Interview with Mark Harris, www.vulture.com. June 16, 2012.

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• The first step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one - America is not the greatest country in the world anymore.

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  Country, America, World

  Source: voidau.com

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• 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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  Two, People, Looks

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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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  Wall, Military, Gun

  "A Few Good Men". www.imdb.com. 1992.

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• If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.

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  Mind, Trying, Obligation

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• Pretty much up until The West Wing, our leaders had always been portrayed in popular culture as either Machiavellian or dolts. But I thought, "What if we show a group of people who are highly competent, they're going to lose as much as they win, but we're going to understand that they wake up every morning wanting to do good?" That was really the spirit behind The West Wing.

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  Morning, Winning, People

  "The Definitive History Of The West Wing: Part 2. Inauguration". www.empireonline.com.

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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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  Gone, Toby, Talent

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• 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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  Writing, Identity, Tough

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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