Quotes by Aaron Sorkin

"The upside of web-based journalism is that everybody gets a chance. The downside is that everybody gets a chance."

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"It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling."

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"When I wrote 'The West Wing,' the juice behind it was that in popular culture, our leaders in government are generally portrayed as Machiavellian, or as idiots. I thought, well, how about writing about a group of hyper-competent people?"

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

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"I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night."

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