Aaron Sorkin Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

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“Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world, and there are things you can do to lift the human spirit, things that are easy, things that are free, things that you can do every day. Civility, respect, kindness, character.”
-- Aaron Sorkin

#Kindness #Character #Citizens
“My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.”
-- Aaron Sorkin

#Lying #Hero #Writing
“Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.”
-- Aaron Sorkin

#Stealing #Great Writers
“When you're writing a movie or a play and writing isn't going well, which is for me the normal condition - it's an exceptional day when suddenly I've got something and it's going well - you can call the studio or the producer or whoever is waiting for it and say, "I know I said I was going to have it in by the end of the summer.”
-- Aaron Sorkin

#Summer #Writing #Play
“The real problem with all drugs is that they work. Fantastically. They're great, right up until the moment they kill you.”
-- Aaron Sorkin

#Real #Drug #Problem
“Perhaps something like Facebook couldn't have been invented by somebody who goes out five nights a week and has a ton of friends and makes friends really easily.”
-- Aaron Sorkin

#Night #Week
“If you close your eyes you can imagine the hackers sitting in a room, combing through the documents to find the ones that will draw the most blood. And in a room next door are American journalists doing the same thing. As demented and criminal as it is, at least the hackers are doing it for a cause. The press is doing it for a nickel.”
-- Aaron Sorkin

#Eye #Doors #Blood
“I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write, but those characters are characters.”
-- Aaron Sorkin

#Clever #Smart #Writing
“There are no Asian movie stars”
-- Aaron Sorkin

#Stars #Asian #Movie Star
“If you can socialize from the privacy of your desk at night in a dark room, you can be a smoother, cooler, funnier, sexy, more everything person than you actually are in real life.”
-- Aaron Sorkin

#Sexy #Real #Dark
“Decisions are made by those who show up.”
-- Aaron Sorkin

#Decision #Made #Shows
“The stuff that I write doesn't work very well as background music. You have to watch it from beginning to end and pay attention as if you were watching a play.”
-- Aaron Sorkin

#Writing #Play #Watches
“An artistâ€™s job is to captivateâ€¦ if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.”
-- Aaron Sorkin

#Jobs #Artist #Lucky
“Honestly, I don't try to guess at what most people want. I don't think I'd guess right, and I just think that that's not a good recipe for storytelling. I try to write what I like, what I think my friends would like.”
-- Aaron Sorkin

#Writing #Thinking #People
“If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.”
-- Aaron Sorkin

#Mind #Trying #Obligation
“When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me.”
-- Aaron Sorkin

#Writing #Directors #Want
“You're going to fall down, but the world doesn't care how many times you fall down, as long as it's one fewer than the numbers of times you get back up.”
-- Aaron Sorkin

#Graduation #Fall #Numbers
“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

#Ideas #Able #Coming Back
“Stupid people surround themselves with smart people. Smart people surround themselves with smart people who disagree with them.”
-- Aaron Sorkin

#Smart #Stupid #People
“There are television critics, movie critics, and theater critics too who I like and who I follow and I get genuinely bummed when they don't like something that I've written because I usually agree with them.”
-- Aaron Sorkin

#Television #Theater #Critics
“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

#Father #Awards #Pigs
“A friend is somebody who says the same things to your face that they would say if you're not in the room.”
-- Aaron Sorkin

#Rooms #Faces #Your Face
“We live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns.”
-- Aaron Sorkin

#Wall #Gun #Men
“Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age”
-- Aaron Sorkin

#Athlete #Opposites #Get Better
“Josh: So, Toby, itâ€™s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it? Toby: God bless America.”
-- Aaron Sorkin

#Country #Night #America
“Toby: All right. It couldn't have gone far, right? Sam: No. Toby: Somewhere in this building...is our talent.”
-- Aaron Sorkin

#Gone #Toby #Talent
“President Bartlet: There's a delegation of cardiologists having their pictures taken in the Blue Room. You wouldn't think you could find a group of people more arrogant than the fifteen of us, but there they are, right upstairs in the Blue Room.”
-- Aaron Sorkin

#Taken #Thinking #Blue
“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.”
-- Aaron Sorkin

#Two #People #Looks
“Mrs. Landingham, does the President have free time this morning? The President has nothing but free time, Toby. Right now he's in the residence eating Cheerios and enjoying Regis and Kathie Lee. Should I get him for you? Sarcasm's a disturbing thing coming from a woman of your age, Mrs. Landingham. What age would that be, Toby? Late twenties? Atta boy.”
-- Aaron Sorkin

#Morning #Sarcasm #Boys
“Never argue with a drunk or a fool.”
-- Aaron Sorkin

#Drunk #Fool #Arguing

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