Aaron Sorkin Quotes
If you lined up 10 writers and asked them to write a movie about Steve Jobs, you'd get 10 very different movies.
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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Spare no expense to save money on this one.
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When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied it even if I had heard of it.
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I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.
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I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
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It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.
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I used to conduct the last opera in Berlin on Sunday, get on a plane on Monday to Chicago, and start a rehearsal that same night, if it was a performance week.
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I just thought any workout that is effective and I can do while laying down I'm signing up for.
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I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.
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I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
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Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.
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I had gone full-on folkie; I'd had it with bands.
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I'm so freaking competitive it's unbelievable.
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I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me.
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Luckily, I work for a company that promotes on performance.
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And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
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We hire military veterans because they make great employees. They bring proven technical and leadership skills. They understand teamwork, and they're adaptable. Bottom line, hiring veterans is good for business.
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Small business owners are experiencing great uncertainty because of the possibility of tax increases, the inconsistent flow of credit, an outrageous national debt, high energy costs, and overreaching federal regulations.
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Translation is an act of recreation.
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Some people wonder why they can't have faith for healing. They feed their body three hot meals a day, and their spirit one cold snack a week.
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We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.
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Accept who you are and try and make the best of that.
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The word "surrender" is often interpreted as giving up, as weakness, as admitting defeat. Although this is one way to use the word, we will use it in a different way. Surrendering means letting go of your resistance to the total openness of who you are. It means giving up the tension of the little vortex you believe yourself to be and realizing the deep power of the ocean you truly are. It means to open with no boundaries, emotional or physical, so you ease wide beyond any limiting sense of self you might have.
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If you lined up 10 writers and asked them to write a movie about Steve Jobs, you'd get 10 very different movies.
