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 used to get butterflies. Now we're always ready to hit the stage and rock out.
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If you bet on Microsoft, you are not going to ask anymore, 'Hey, where is the innovation?' The challenge going forward is how do we keep up with it.
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It is your passion that empowers you to be able to do that thing you were created to do.
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There is no substitute to taking a lot of a catches as a youngster if you want to do slip catching - you've got to catch, catch, catch. And more than doing the normal stuff, you have to vary your catching - you've got to take some catches with the tennis ball, you got to take some closer, some further away.
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There's a half-conscious state you enter when you're actually generating prose, and you are simply a better writer in that place. In fact it's the only place where you even are a writer.
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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
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I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying.
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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.
