Aaron Sorkin Quotes

I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue.

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• Because I'm in the public eye, I think that I would prefer to date someone regular who isn't in the news all the time, but I think even if you date someone regular, they'll still put it in the news.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Time
  • Eye
  • News

• Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • People
  • Important
  • Religious

• I feel very German - and who can make himself a judge over what is German and what is not - in my ideas and the ideas of my spiritual brothers of German origin.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Ideas
  • Spiritual
  • Feel

• There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Men
  • Age
  • Knowledge

• I always wanted to do things on my own terms, and unfortunately in this industry, that's not something that is easily given. You're at the mercy of other people, but then you still have that drive to continue on. That's an equation for a lot of heartbreak.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • People
  • Mercy
  • Drive

• I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Thinking
  • Never
  • Film

• I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Always
  • Effort
  • Try

• To try to fix the future is a manifest absurdity.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • Future
  • Try
  • Fix

• The Ferrari is a beautiful car. It's great.

  

  Vanessa Ferrari
  • Great
  • Beautiful
  • Car

• I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Like
  • Doing
  • Learnt

• In all my movies, be it 'Page 3', 'Chandni Bar' or 'Corporate,' I have tried to depict honesty and reality.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Reality
  • Honesty
  • Page

• Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?

  

  Kate Millett
  • Place
  • Privacy
  • Keeping

• As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Ability
  • More
  • Will

• In the 5 years, well over 60,000 American families have been broken apart by the absence of insurance because the only way for parents to get treatment for their children is to turn the custody of those children over to the State.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Children
  • American
  • Parents

• Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Think
  • Way
  • Quiet

• In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Play
  • Mom
  • Hollywood

• You don't have to be dowdy to be a Christian.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • You
  • Christian

• What we want to do is put a price on greenhouse gases. Because if they're more expensive, businesses will find a way to be more efficient or switch to solar or hydro or wind power. So that will reduce emissions.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Power
  • Wind
  • Price

• I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• I have had just about enough of other guys trying to turn you, Raven. There is only one vampire who will," he said confidently. "The one who you were always meant for-me.

  

  Ellen Schreiber
  • Vampire
  • Meant

• I want all my films to look distinctly different, like some other directors I admire. But in a way, I can't really take myself completely out of the movies I make.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Different
  • Want
  • Myself

• If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is able, should develop and carry out a program of his own.

  

  Carter G. Woodson
  • Men
  • Want
  • Should

• I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Want
  • Write
  • Dialogue