Aaron Sorkin Quotes
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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
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I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened. I didn't want to be violated in that way.'
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I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.
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Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.
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That is why, as soon as I felt a real attraction for my first passion which was the motorcycle, and in spite of the danger it could represent, they encouraged me.
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Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.
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I guess I have a certain willingness for audacity.
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Liars do look you in the eye. They do not always stutter, stammer, blush or fidget.
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It seems to me that Halloween is the perfect time to get all over steampunk.
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I think anyone that isn't fired up right now shouldn't probably be out here.
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China's one-child policy was born in 1980, after years of less severe measures to discourage births. The Communist Party promised that the policy would be temporary.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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I've got four kids - I unblock a toilet every day.
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Women are sacred.
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It feels like a simple human right to be able to be yourself, and yet, what trans people have to go through in order to get to there, it can be so complicated.
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When people have lost their jobs or are afraid of losing their jobs in the future, they lash out. They want others to know about their fears, their pain.
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Self-confidence has always been one of my good qualities. I am always very confident. It is in my nature to be confident, to be aggressive. And it applies in my batting as well as wicketkeeping.
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I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.
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I cannot recall a period when I did not draw; and at school, the studies that were distasteful to me, mathematics and grammar, were retarded by the indulgence of teachers who were proud of my drawing faculties, and passed over my neglect of uncongenial subjects.
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Fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a permanent loser.
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You make money out of things people pay for.
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In the voice of mirth there may be excitement, but in the tones of mourning there is consolation.
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I do not speak through my characters; it's not a ventriloquist act.
