Aaron Sorkin Quotes
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If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.
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I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.
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Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
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Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
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I'm a big fan of Katy Perry.
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I was going to go to college and graduate and move to New York and do the Broadway thing. That's where a lot of my influences vocally and writing come from. Then I did some covers, and towards the end of college, I saw it was a path I could take. I wrote more pop music.
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Compared to a lot of artists, I'm usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots.
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I kept on hearing the voice of God saying if you are going to be the minister that your mom mentioned... then you have to act. My pulpit is acting.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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The transparency of a metaphor displays the glint of truth. But if a metaphor is taken for a reality, it then becomes dense and masks the truth it is meant to display.
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It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.
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I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.
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Without there being some national strategy, it is difficult for educators to know what kinds of engineers or technicians to produce and for potential students to know what professions to study for.
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I'm not a good writer. It takes me a long time to get there. I write and then rewrite and revise and do it over and over until I'm satisfied.
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My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, really. I wouldn't say it's a career in fashion. The range is all day-to-day stuff that I'd put on and use myself.
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I'd love to return to theater.
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Desire creates its own object.
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That's double-edged: it's amazing that they're bringing me in and showing people new ideas, and at the same time it's a little hard because seventy percent of the time or even higher I'm not going to get those roles.
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One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.
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In America, when I first came here, they were used to wearing more make-up - thicker foundation, more Max Factor, that sort of thing. But you have to know who you are and what you look like: if you know yourself a little bit, you don't need to follow trends.
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Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
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I don't doubt the sincerity of my Democratic friends. And they should not doubt ours.
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I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while back, some not. There is no set pattern.
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And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
