Aaron Sorkin Quotes
All my heroes wore coats and ties to work. What happened to men wearing hats? Maybe I should bring back hats.
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It's hard to make a good movie in four weeks. It's hard. I've done it, but it's not easy.
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NRDC has helped bring hope spots to more of our shared ocean waters. We helped draft and pass a California law creating a network of underwater parks stretching from the Oregon border to the Mexican border.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
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I am happy that thousands of students, young designers and fashion people will be able to see and study my work in every aspect of it.
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I am a just man.
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I started at an agency called Intertalent. You copy scripts, you pick up people's dry cleaning, you take their dogs to the vet, you deliver packages, you do whatever they want you to do.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
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I think people have a hard time thinking that I could've done a sitcom.
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The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
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Patients who trust their doctors and have a psychological expectation of getting better could trigger a reaction in their body.
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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
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Pay attention to the big themes because that's what will help you earn ten times your money.
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Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.
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My mother was keen that I complete my graduation and never ever wanted me to be in the movies, as my father had made five films that lost money. One of the films he made was 'Agneepath,' which was hugely hyped but underwhelming at the box office, and I remember that my dad had to sell my grandmother's flat to pay off the loan.
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There's so much guilt there attached to having a perfectly good life.
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I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.
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You work with people who are obsessive about shopping, obsessive about owning things and buying things, like this purchase is going to make them happy. And you want to say to them, 'You know, no amount of real estate is gonna fill that void.'
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It's our job as fiction writers to provide a delight that nothing else can - to such a degree that people have no choice but to read our work. Now that's a very tall order, if not impossible. But why not try?
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All my heroes wore coats and ties to work. What happened to men wearing hats? Maybe I should bring back hats.
