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21 quotes by Aaron Sorkin

Aaron Benjamin Sorkin (born June 9, 1961) is an American screenwriter, producer, and playwright. His works include the Broadway plays A Few Good Men and The Farnsworth Invention; the television series Sports Night, The West Wing, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, and The Newsroom; and the films A Few Good Men, The American President, Charlie Wilson's War, The Social Network, and Moneyball. Sorkin's trademark rapid-fire dialogue and extended...
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Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.

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There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya.... →

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You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly... →

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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.

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It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.

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Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.

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But HBO is less interested in how many people are watching than in how much the people who are watching are liking the show. They didn't set up... →

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There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really... →

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It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference.

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Our responsibility is to captivate you for however long we've asked for your attention. That said, there is tremendous drama to be gotten from... →

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It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

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And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet.

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Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

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