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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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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Unemployment determination in a modern economy was the main subject area of my research from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1970s and again from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.
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In Holland, we have a saying: 'A knife cuts on two sides.' With the rubber duck, I'm trying to show people what they haven't been seeing in their public space. When the rubber duck is there and when it's gone, you know.
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I desperately want a dog, but I've been told I travel too much, and I'm not allowed to have a dog.
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With the growing reliance on social media, we no longer search for news, or the products and services we wish to buy. Instead they are being pushed to us by friends, acquaintances and business colleagues.
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When somebody's in love with you, they think it's amazing you've written them a poem, and when they don't love you anymore, they hate those poems. They wish those poems would go away.
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Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect.
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Life is not for learning nor is life for working, but learning and working are for life.
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Writing never comes easy. The difference between Page 2 and Page Nothing is the difference between life and death.
