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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• 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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