Aaron Sorkin Quotes

Heroes in drama are people who try hard to reach a virtuous ideal. And whether they succeed or fail really doesn't matter - it's the trying that counts.

Aaron Sorkin

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PeopleSucceedReachTryingDrama

On a film set, there are runners who are 19, it's their first job, but to me they're as important as anybody else because if they don't do their job then nobody else can. So I don't think anybody should be treated disrespectfully or as if they're of a lower status.

Jim Carter

JobMeThinkNobodyImportantFirst

In my early days, I wrote my dissertation for MIT at the London School of Economics, really under James Meade, but my dissertation was five chapters on the theory of capital movement, but it didn't mention money.

Robert Mundell

MoneySchoolEconomicsEarlyLondon

Writing a screenplay needs to be more than words on a page - and by the way, I think the words on the page are something you have to try to execute on the highest level you can; I'm not dismissing that by any regard.

John Ridley

WordsWritingThinkYouPageWay

The very end of me mom's road is the back entrance to Bray Head. Usually climb it when I get home.

Tristan MacManus

HomeMeMomClimbRoadEnd

There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention.

Robert Bourassa

NothingMoreSystemDemocraticThan

I am far from the first to conclude that Donald Trump lacks the temperament to be president.

Mitt Romney

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Doing a movie about computers between 1978 and 1982? You can't get much less sexy, less active than that.

Joshua Michael Stern

ComputersSexyDoingYouActiveGet

I love drawings, so I've always enjoyed making drawings that exist on their own.

Jasper Johns

LoveAlwaysOwnExistMakingI Love

Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are.

Joseph Wambaugh

PeopleLookingProcessSidesJury

A long time ago, I thought, as a writer in the Caribbean, 'I don't ever want to have to write 'It was great in Paris.'' Because I don't think, proportionately speaking, that one's experience in a city as opposed to, say, a village in St. Lucia, is superior to the other.

Derek Walcott

GreatTimeExperienceCityThink

The concern is over what will happen as strong encryption becomes commonplace with all digital communications and stored data. Right now the use of encryption isn't all that widespread, but that state of affairs is expected to change rapidly.

Dorothy Denning

ChangeStrongDataNowWillDigital

There's, you know, there's an ideology behind Ultron that makes him more unique that just a bad guy. He doesn't wanna just kill the Avengers. He doesn't wanna just destroy the world. He has these monologues and these beautiful speeches that kind of embody a certain mentality about what's wrong with humanity.

Chris Evans

BeautifulWorldHumanityYouBad

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