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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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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Writing is a creative process, and you need to have the doors and windows of your mind open so that you have the possibility of change.
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Writing is agony. I hate it.
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In the old days, you had an audience of about 400, half of whom were committee members from somewhere or other sitting in their suits. It's become a real sports event with sports fans now.
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When I'm singing I'm always trying to get to the highest point possible. I'd fly to the top of Buckingham Palace to sing to the queen.
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Fashion is a great thing, it's a way to express who you are.
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When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.
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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.
