Aaron Sorkin Quotes
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.
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
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The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.
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You'll probably find most models are incredibly insecure about their bodies.
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Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.
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If you're famous, you're not free.
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I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.
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I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro.
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The world can be very small. That's why you have to be very careful, whoever you meet.
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The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
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Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.
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If you feel like snacking, stock up on almonds, walnuts and cranberries.
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You sit at your computer for hours, then slave away at your job that you may or may not like. You don't know how to explain to them that the time when you feel alive or present is when you are writing.
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The thing that 'Glee' has successfully done that no other TV show has is that they're just honest - but they don't tell you what's right or wrong. They don't tell you what to agree with or what to believe in.
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You can't get more for less. You get what you pay for.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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My highest point was the first thing I won, a short story competition in a women's magazine in the Eighties. It was the first time I'd had my writing validated, and the first thing I'd ever shown anyone else.
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I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.
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Reality is what you can count on.
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Sometimes when I'm stuck, I really do need that cup of tea, or that chocolate, or a break, or a walk, but in most cases what I actually need to do is make myself keep writing until it flows again.
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There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.
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I am no expert on tax; I'm a film producer. I read books and think about which ones would make good movies, and then I work with directors in order to make them.
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The streetlight outside my house shines on tonight and I'm watching it like it could give me a vision. James ain't talked ever and he looks at that streetlight like it was a word and maybe like it was a verb. James wanted to streetlight me and make me bright and beautiful so all the moths and bats would circle me like I was the center of the world an held secrets.
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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.
