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I think it's up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch.
— Aaron Sorkin
Just to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else.
— Aaron Sorkin
TOBY: The world can move or not by changing some words.
— Aaron Sorkin
Decisions are made by those who show up
— Aaron Sorkin
PRESIDENT BARTLETT: See how benevolent I can be when everybody just does what I tell them.
— Aaron Sorkin
The rules of drama are very much separate from the properties of life. I think that's especially true of Shakespeare.
— Aaron Sorkin
We talk about institutions that are too big to fail - I think the story is as much about people who think they are too big to fail.
— Andrew Ross Sorkin
You don't need to wear a patch on your arm to have honor.
— Aaron Sorkin
With a television series, there's a hard deadline, and so you have to write even when you're not writing well.
— Aaron Sorkin
Whether it's 'The West Wing' or anything else, my first thought is always, 'What's a good story?'
— Aaron Sorkin
I've never met anyone who has said, "My goal is to make America mediocre." That's a kind of hard-right conservative fallacy.
— Aaron Sorkin
I think that if I couldn't write, I would be unemployable.
— Aaron Sorkin
Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
— Aaron Sorkin
I'm not interested in the difference between good and bad, I'm interested in the differences between good and great.
— Aaron Sorkin
Toby: All right. It couldn't have gone far, right?Sam: No.
Toby: Somewhere in this building ... is our talent. — Aaron Sorkin
I feel like the better version of myself is on paper ... I'd rather have people know me on paper.
— Aaron Sorkin
Never argue with a drunk or a fool.
— Aaron Sorkin
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
The only answer to terror is an excess of democracy.
— Michael Sorkin
Every creator sets up their world differently. That's what's so amazing about someone like Aaron Sorkin and his writing.
— Lesli Linka Glatter
It's one thing to be asked to respect someone else's religion. It's another to be asked to respect their taboos.
— Aaron Sorkin
When I was starting out, William Goldman took me under his wing, and he's still the person I show pages to.
— Aaron Sorkin
I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.
— Aaron Sorkin
Elite is not a bad word, it's an aspirational one
— Aaron Sorkin
The euphoria around economic booms often obscures the possibility for a bust, which explains why leaders typically miss the warning signs.
— Andrew Ross Sorkin
In truth, a leader should either apologize, mean it and do something about it - or not apologize at all.
— Andrew Ross Sorkin
I think Aaron Sorkin is like Shakespeare. When you go through it, there is a rhythm and clues all over the place of how it should be played.
— Chris Messina
Tell me what you think and then tell me what the really smart person in the room who disagrees with you thinks.
— Aaron Sorkin
Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren't that many tour-de-force roles out there for women,
— Aaron Sorkin
I spend most of my days pacing around, muttering that I have no ideas, feeling like I'm walking a plank.
— Aaron Sorkin
You can only write, 'Somebody wants something, something else is in their way of getting it.'
— Aaron Sorkin
The upside of web-based journalism is that everybody gets a chance. The downside is that everybody gets a chance.
— Aaron Sorkin
I was sitting on a bench having a bagel, but from where I was both jogging and sculng looks good to me. Sam — Aaron Sorkin
Television is a visual medium. You have to create some kind of visual interest. And it's entertainment for your eyes.
— Aaron Sorkin
While I was doing 'The Newsroom,' I always had the news on on different networks on different TVs around my house and around my office.
— Aaron Sorkin
For better or worse, I have a lot of vaudeville circus skills that you just can't showcase in Aaron Sorkin's work.
— Joshua Malina
Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt.
— Aaron Sorkin
In truth, the best Bitcoin can hope for is to be a second-rate version of gold, if that.
— Andrew Ross Sorkin
I want to convey that I'm crazy about the Kardashians - but I'm not sure which is which.
— Aaron Sorkin
I'm neither a millennial nor a hipster.
— Aaron Sorkin
Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.
— Aaron Sorkin
If I get an idea for a series that I really like, I'm sure I won't be able to resist coming back and doing it.
— Aaron Sorkin
It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference.
— Aaron Sorkin
Some billionaires like cars, yachts and private jets. Others like newspapers.
— Andrew Ross Sorkin
Aaron Sorkin is why people hate liberals. He's a smug, condescending know-it-all who isn't as smart as he thinks he is.
— Alex Pareene
That's a very real feeling - that I don't have a story to tell. I'm not a pure storyteller. I have a tough time with story.
— Aaron Sorkin
My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.
— Aaron Sorkin
I'm a playwright. All I care about is the play being good.
— Aaron Sorkin
It's the people who have an incentive to find the problem who usually find the problem.
— Andrew Ross Sorkin
Presidents don't make new friends. That's why they've got to keep their old ones. Adm. Fitzwallace
— Aaron Sorkin
Forget about banks that are too big to fail; the focus should be on cities, municipalities and countries that are too big to fail.
— Andrew Ross Sorkin
And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
— Aaron Sorkin
All my heroes wore coats and ties to work. What happened to men wearing hats? Maybe I should bring back hats.
— Aaron Sorkin
There are no Asian movie stars
— Aaron Sorkin
Film doesn't have to worry. Movies are awesome. There's no war going on, theaters aren't going to lose.
— Aaron Sorkin
Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder.
— Aaron Sorkin
Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.
— Aaron Sorkin
DONNA: She said she knew it in her heart. Do you know how many times I've been wrong about things I knew in my heart?
— Aaron Sorkin
I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue.
— Aaron Sorkin
Music is what mathematics does on a Saturday night.
— Aaron Sorkin
And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.
— Aaron Sorkin
People who don't know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.
— Aaron Sorkin
If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
— Aaron Sorkin
I don't sleep well. I'm a very nervous - by my nature - anxious, almost paranoid person and reporter.
— Andrew Ross Sorkin
The guy who wins the Oscar for Best Actor has a much higher bar to clear than the woman who wins best actress.
— Aaron Sorkin
Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I'm going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.
— Aaron Sorkin
You are like seven of the strangest women I have ever met.
— Aaron Sorkin