Aaron Sorkin Quotes

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• Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world, and there are things you can do to lift the human spirit, things that are easy, things that are free, things that you can do every day: civility, respect, kindness, character.

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  Respect, Freedom, Kindness

  "20 famous college commencement speeches" by Mo Elinzano, www.deseretnews.com. May 6, 2015.

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• You're going to fall down, but the world doesn't care how many times you fall down, as long as it's one fewer than the numbers of times you get back up.

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  Graduation, Fall, Numbers

  "Remarks by Aaron Sorkin ’83 at Syracuse University’s 158th Commencement and the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry’s 115th Commencement". Aaron Sorkin's Commencement address at Syracuse University in New York, news.syr.edu. May 13, 2012.

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• Decisions are made by those who show up.

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  Decision, Made, Shows

  Aaron Sorkin (2002). “The West Wing”

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• Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

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  Stealing, Great Writers, Good Writers

  Aaron Sorkin (2003). “The West Wing: Seasons 3 & 4 : the Shooting Scripts”, Newmarket Shooting Scripts

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• A friend is somebody who says the same things to your face that they would say if you're not in the room.

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  Rooms, Faces, Your Face

  "Aaron Sorkin: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 14, 2010.

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• Stupid people surround themselves with smart people. Smart people surround themselves with smart people who disagree with them.

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  Smart, Stupid, People

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• Socializing on the internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.

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  Reality, Tvs, Internet

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt.

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  Inspirational, Graduation, Hurt

  Aaron Sorkin's Commencement Address at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, news.syr.edu. May 13, 2012.

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• The real problem with all drugs is that they work. Fantastically. They're great, right up until the moment they kill you.

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  Real, Drug, Problem

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• Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder.

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  Wall, Character, Storytelling

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• I love writing. I'm not particularly comfortable in the actual world - I'm much more comfortable on the page. So if I could have a life where I could just slip the pages under the door and somebody would slip me a meal back, then that would be perfect for me.

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  Writing, Doors, Perfect

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.

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  Jobs, Artist, Lucky

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• Tell me what you think and then tell me what the really smart person in the room who disagrees with you thinks.

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  Smart, Thinking, Rooms

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• Humans know when it's not a good story. Unless you do this for a living, you may not know exactly why you don't like a story, but you can't fool an audience ever. They know when you have it and they know when you don't.

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  Stories, May, Fool

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says, "You may have fooled some of the people some of the time but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent and I'm not your mommy, I'm a white piece of paper, you wanna dance with me?" and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.

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  Hate, Writing, White

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You can only write, 'Somebody wants something, something else is in their way of getting it.'

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  Writing, Want Something, Want

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• Toby Zeigler: There's literally no one in the world I don't hate right now.

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  Hate, World, Toby

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• Perhaps something like Facebook couldn't have been invented by somebody who goes out five nights a week and has a ton of friends and makes friends really easily.

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  Night, Week, Like Facebook

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• Music is what mathematics does on a Saturday night.

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  Night, Doe, Mathematics

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• People don't live their lives in a series of scenes that form a dramatic narrative, they don't speak in dialogue, they're not lit by a cinematographer or scored by a composer. The properties of real life and the properties of drama have almost nothing to do with each other. The difference between writing about reporters and being a reporter is the same as the difference between drawing a building and building a building.

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  Life, Real, Drama

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• It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference.

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  Nice, Hbo, Differences

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• Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.

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  Government, People, Together

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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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  Believe, Gay, Pressure

  "The Newsroom". www.npr.org. July 16, 2012.

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• I'm not interested in the difference between good and bad, I'm interested in the differences between good and great.

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  Differences, Good And Bad, Not Interested

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• Education is the silver bullet. Education is everything. We don't need little changes, we need gigantic, monumental changes. Schools should be palaces. The competition for the best teachers should be fierce. They should be making six-figure salaries. Schools should be incredibly expensive for government and absolutely free of charge to its citizens, just like national defense. That's my position. I just haven't figured out how to do it yet.

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  Teacher, School, Government

  "The West Wing". www.imdb.com. 1999–2006.

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