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 want to avoid injuries by running only road.
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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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Americans, perhaps more than most people, have pondered the question of who they are and what their country is.
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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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I play knowing that there is somebody watching me out there in the crowd that has never had the opportunity to watch a game before and it might be the only chance they ever to see one, live in person. Michael Jordan once said that in an interview, and I really took it to heart; whenever I step on the floor, I play for that person.
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When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian society. Not only was there no poverty, divorce, racism, sexism, pollution, or violence in the world of 'The Giver'; there was also careful attention paid to language: to its fluency, precision, and power.
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I was even more country in my college-band days.
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I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.
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The storytelling in a movie is in the cut; it's in the edit. It's not an actor's job, really. Your job is such a tiny little thing, and I love the feeling of juggling or tightrope walking.
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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.
