Aaron Sorkin Quotes

The rules of drama are very much separate from the properties of life. I think that's especially true of Shakespeare.

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• I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.

  

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• Dance has definitely made me a better role model.When I'm performing, I'm always thinking about my face and my look. I used to have a much harder time with it.

  

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• The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.

  

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• It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

  

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• Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.

  

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• I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.

  

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• Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.

  

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• My parents met because my father was an actor friend of one of my mom's brothers, but my mother has never set foot on the stage - she's quite shy. So it's a strange thing because people say, 'Oh, coming from acting parents,' when the idea of acting would literally make my mother just want to throw up.

  

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• I try to photobomb as much as possible.

  

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• Dr. Dre, my oldest brother, he paved the way for me and Snoop to get a chance to get into the studio. I asked him to show me how to work the MPC-60... I was about maybe 17, 18, right around there.

  

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• A lot of children remember seeing cartoons, 'Pinocchio' or 'Bambi' or something that breaks their heart. I remember seeing 'The Blue Angel' and it breaking my heart. It was the first time I realised there was an adult world - that adults could damage each other or destroy each other emotionally.

  

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• I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.

  

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• Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.

  

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• Animals are companions on this planet, not necessarily our feedbags.

  

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• I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

  

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• The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.

  

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• I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.

  

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• I suggest that ten thousand Negroes march on Washington, D.C., the capital of the Nation, with the slogan, 'We loyal Negro American citizens demand the right to work and fight for our country.'

  

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• My mother always told me not to handle a buffalo by its tail, but always catch it by its horns. And I have used that lesson in everything in my life, including the Railways.

  

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• First and foremost, I feel very lucky to have the family I have, so I would like my family to stay happy and healthy.

  

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• September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.

  

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• The rules of drama are very much separate from the properties of life. I think that's especially true of Shakespeare.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
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