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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.

~Aaron Sorkin

Topics: Audience Bad Getting Good Guess Mass Recipe Satisfy Something Something Good Then Trying Wants

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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 their business model to make writers happy. It's just a nice unintended consequence.

~Aaron Sorkin

Topics: Business Business Model Consequence Happy How How Many People How Much Interested Just Less Liking Make Many Model Much Nice People Set Show Than Unintended Up Watching Who Writers Hbo

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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.

~Aaron Sorkin

Topics: Change Come Each Expect Less Me More More And More Other Seems Should Think I Think

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

~Aaron Sorkin

Topics: Friends Nothin Seen You

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I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white, and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people some of the time, but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent, and I'm not your mommy; I'm a white piece of paper. You wanna dance with me?' and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.

~Aaron Sorkin

Topics: Agent Dance Days Fooled Go Hate Love May Me Mommy Over Page Paper People Piece Really Says Some Starting Those Time Wanna White Writing You Your I Love

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I am truly at my happiest not when I am writing an aria for an actor or making a grand political or social point. I am at my happiest when I've figured out a fun way for somebody to slip on a banana peel.

~Aaron Sorkin

Topics: Actor Am Banana Figured Fun Grand Happiest Making Out Peel Point Political Slip Social Somebody Truly Way Writing I Am

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I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.

~Aaron Sorkin

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My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue.

~Aaron Sorkin

Topics: Afraid Dialogue Eight Going Just Kind Know Little Lots Loved Me Oftentimes Old Parents Plays See Sound Starting Thing Thinking Times Too Took Understand Very Virginia Were Woolf Years Young

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I'm very physical. When I'm writing, I'm playing all the parts; I'm saying the lines out loud, and if I get excited about something - which doesn't happen very often when I'm writing, but it's the greatest feeling when it does - I'll be out of the chair and walking around, and if I'm at home, I'll find myself two blocks from my house.

~Aaron Sorkin

Topics: About Around Blocks Chair Does Excited Feeling Find Get Greatest Happen Home House Lines Loud Myself Often Out Parts Physical Playing Saying Something Two Very Walking Which Writing

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I've never written anything that I haven't wanted to write again. I want to, and still am, writing 'A Few Good Men' again. I didn't know what I was doing then, and I'm still trying to get it right. I would write 'The Social Network' again if they would let me, I'd write 'Moneyball' again. I would write 'The West Wing' again.

~Aaron Sorkin

Topics: Again Am Anything Doing Few Get Good Good Men Know Me Men Network Never Right Social Still Then Trying Want Wanted West West Wing Wing Would Write Writing Written

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Producer

Born: June 9th, 1961

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