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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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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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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To become a lawyer you must discard your ethics and become an eloquent devil that views justice as god.
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When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.
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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.
