Aaron Sorkin Quotes
It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference.
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Claiming to 'fight for small business' is often used as a political tool in Washington D.C., but it is actually the policies behind that battle cry that small firms care about.
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I'm cranky.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
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I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.
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I just want to be the best. I haven't been in an all-out war. That doesn't mean I'm not the best.
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I have observed, through many years of living in north Brooklyn, that people, for example an ostensible group of friends, can be dangerous to one another.
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
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As far as everyone else's opinion, I mean, if I would have thought that everyone was right, I probably wouldn't have left Compton, so I don't get too caught up on what the next person thinks.
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My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.
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It's funny, because when I was in college, all my professors said, 'You should do comedy.' And I was like, 'No! No!' But I was able to get my foot in the door through comedy. I'm so grateful to have the opportunity to do it.
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I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
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I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.
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Oh, it is quite possible that none of us in 'Downton' will ever again get the ratings this has had. But from a career point of view, it has opened so many doors.
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I'm obviously not an advocate of Christian America or a simplistic view of America as 'a city on a hill.'
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There has been a big debate about it: can a black man play a Nordic character?
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The older I get the more I realize there's no real good guys or real bad guys, and I'm curious about how the good guys got good and how the bad guys got bad.
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I began to exercise a lot of cinematic muscle with the precepts I had learned in the New York art world. Film was intriguing. I began to think of art as elitist; film was not.
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People forget that when you're 16, you're probably more serious than you'll ever be again. You think seriously about the big questions.
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
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Civil rights in this country is unfinished business, and racism is alive and well.
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A lot of people don't realize that when you're trying to lose weight, or just trying to stay fit, 85 percent of it is what you eat, and 15 percent of it is how you work out.
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It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference.
