Aaron Sorkin Quotes
Everything can be going well, but if I'm not writing, I'm not happy. When I'm writing well, I'm like a different person.
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Think and grow rich.
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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The only person I'd cry if I met would be Beyonce.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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I've already lived one full life, and so now I'm about to endeavor to see what else the good Lord has in store for me, and I'm wide open.
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Cats are the runes of beauty, invincibility, wonder, pride, freedom, coldness, self-sufficiency, and dainty individuality - the qualities of sensitive, enlightened, mentally developed, pagan, cynical, poetic, philosophic, dispassionate, reserved, independent, Nietzschean, unbroken, civilised, master-class men.
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Other actors are not my concern, and that's their life and that's their journey. Everybody has to get to a point in their own time and their own way.
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I was described as a dreamer, a fantasist, even as the village idiot. I didn't care. What I cared about was convincing people to allow me to go on with my work.
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People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.
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You'll be free or die!
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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Why I got into music was James Taylor, so to see him be a real down-to-earth guy that's unbelievably talented... then to hear him sing those lyrics of 'What I'm Thankful For,' which is a song Ms. Yearwood and I got to write together, that was definitely a highlight of my recording life.
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Best Buy is just too Western! They do not stock enough Chinese brands, and Chinese people do not want to buy foreign brands.
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They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills.
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Puerto Rican culture is very different from Mexican culture. Part of the Mexican psychology is the idea of being an immigrant or being illegal or being confused with that. That doesn't happen with Puerto Ricans, because you're a commonwealth.
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But what is criticism? Criticism is purely destructive; anyone can destroy, but not everyone can build up.
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It's definitely not going to be a normal day. I'm not going to cry over a few lost sales.
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I still sing on bits and pieces. Singing's something that I love to do, but it's not something that I pursue as a career.
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Your subconscious mind is trying to help you all the time. That's why I keep a journal - not for chatter but for mostly the images that flow into the mind or little ideas. I keep a running journal, and I have all of my life, so it's like your gold mine when you start writing.
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Everything can be going well, but if I'm not writing, I'm not happy. When I'm writing well, I'm like a different person.
