Aaron Sorkin Quotes
Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.
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Apparently 'The Office' plays in Brazil. Who would've thought that Brazilians would identify with a bunch of pasty white Scrantonians in a paper company? But the Brazilians I've met have really loved the show.
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If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
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During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
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I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
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Winemakers have to adapt to what they're given by nature: the vines, the fruit, the soil and the weather.
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Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!
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We came to Portland because there was a good alternative public school. Friends who lived there told me about it, and my son loved it. I left his dad and went to work slinging hash in a breakfast diner and working nights tending bar in a biker tavern.
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Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.
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When you give your all as an artist, and all people can talk about is what pants you're wearing, it's really frustrating.
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Our ships, God be thanked, have received little hurt.
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
