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"I do enjoy the fact that we don't have a king or queen; we have a person with a very unusual temp job for a few years. My favorite moments on the show were always showing the intersection of the person and the job. Any time Bartlet from the West Wing could be something other than the president - a father, or a husband, or a son, or a friend."
--- Aaron Sorkin
#Moments #Enjoy #My Favorite
"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."
--- Aaron Sorkin
#Week #Night #Like Facebook
"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."
--- Aaron Sorkin
#Protect #God Bless #God Bless America
"Decisions are made by those who show up."
--- Aaron Sorkin
#Made #Shows #Decision
"It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference."
--- Aaron Sorkin
#Differences #Nice #Advertisers
"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."
--- Aaron Sorkin
#Character #Goodbye #Saying Goodbye
"Elite is not a bad word, it's an aspirational one."
--- Aaron Sorkin
#Elites #Bad Word
"It wouldn't kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while."
--- Aaron Sorkin
#Newspapers #Film #Watches
"There are television critics, movie critics, and theater critics too who I like and who I follow and I get genuinely bummed when they don't like something that I've written because I usually agree with them."
--- Aaron Sorkin
#Theater #Television #Written
"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."
--- Aaron Sorkin
#People #May #Pages
"Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder."
--- Aaron Sorkin
#Character #Storytelling #Harder
"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."
--- Aaron Sorkin
#People #Thinking #Smart
"My preference would have been to not go back on the air after 9\11, at all until the time felt right but that wasn't an option."
--- Aaron Sorkin
"Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright."
--- Aaron Sorkin
#Stealing #Good Writers #Great Writers
"That's a very real feeling - that I don't have a story to tell. I'm not a pure storyteller. I have a tough time with story."
--- Aaron Sorkin
#Stories #Tough Times #Feelings
"Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism."
--- Aaron Sorkin
#Television #Conflict #Used
"When I was a kid, I wanted to be an actor. I was acting in all the school plays. I went to school for acting. I was really sure that that's what I wanted to do."
--- Aaron Sorkin
#Play #Kids #Actors
"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."
--- Aaron Sorkin
#Perfect For Me #World #Comfortable
"As a dramatist, you're looking for points of friction."
--- Aaron Sorkin
#Friction
"There are no Asian movie stars"
--- Aaron Sorkin
#Movie Star #Asian #Stars
"Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren't that many tour-de-force roles out there for women."
--- Aaron Sorkin
#Play #Force #Roles
"This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up."
--- Aaron Sorkin
#People #Fifteen #Minutes
"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."
--- Aaron Sorkin
#People #Leader #Culture
"Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight."
--- Aaron Sorkin
#Eight #Seven #Wells
"I've never met anyone who has said, "My goal is to make America mediocre." That's a kind of hard-right conservative fallacy."
--- Aaron Sorkin
#Mets #Said #Fallacy

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