Aaron Sorkin Quotes
Writing never comes easy. The difference between Page 2 and Page Nothing is the difference between life and death.
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I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
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I don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.
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When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.
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I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
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Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.
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I loved statistics from a young age. And I studied very much in Sweden. I used to be in the upper quarter of all courses I attended. But in St. John's, I was in the lower quarter. And the fact was that Indian students studied harder than we did in Sweden. They read the textbook twice, or three times or four times.
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I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
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I spend my days kneeling in the muck of language, feeling around for gooey verbs, nouns, and modifiers that I can squash together to make a blob of a sentence that bears some likeness to reason and sense.
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Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.
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I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do that it takes you off your game.
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To be honest, the core reason why I became an actor was that I didn't want to go to school. That's where it started. I hated opening my history books and my English books, but then, of course, you grow older. I went to film school in New York, and that's when you really realize that you have to grow up now. It's not child's play anymore.
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For me, it makes sense to address shocking experiences through poems because of the way poems also have that effect on the reader.
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Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.
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On how he met Jerry Cantrell, quoted in Layne Staley Interviewed by Don Kaye in 1996.
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Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out.
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Writing never comes easy. The difference between Page 2 and Page Nothing is the difference between life and death.
