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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• 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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• We want to inspire people to work together, giving them hope that we can do something even if we cannot do everything.

  

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• A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

  

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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.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Different
  • Writing
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