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Aaron Sorkin Quotes

Everything can be going well, but if I'm not writing, I'm not happy. When I'm writing well, I'm like a different person.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: producer
Nationality: american
Birth: June 9, 1961

Topics

Happy Writing Person Everything Well

I was a freshman at Stanford University the first time someone called me a 'bama.' One of my new friends from D.C. said it, laughing, and even though I didn't know what it meant, exactly, I got that it was some kind of insult. I must have smirked or shrugged, which made him laugh harder, and then he called me 'country,' too.

Time Me Laugh Friends Someone Know

I love the sun; I would have trouble living in Canada.

Love Sun Canada Trouble Living

My daughters related to something in the Spice Girls that made them feel better about being female. They truly started to believe girls could do anything. They could be fat, thin, anything they wanted to be.

Jennifer Saunders

Believe Better Feel Fat Spice Being

I knew I didn't want to pursue an academic career at all, which, of course, my father would have loved me to have done. I didn't want to go to university. The only other thing I could do was paint, and so I went to art school because they couldn't conceive of how one would be an actor.

Father Art School Me Loved Career

Trying to overcome addiction is one of the hardest things for a person to do. And the fact that I had to do it under the scrutiny of tabloid press at first made it seem even more difficult. But in fact, it oddly ended up being a plus. Because of the tabloid stuff, it wasn't like I could walk into a bar and order a drink.

Walk Trying Person Addiction Drink

We don't know what we don't know about Ebola. We think we know it's a virus, but is it mutating? Can it be spread by airborne?

Think Know Spread Virus About

I've been to all 50 states, and traveled this whole country, and 90 percent of the people are good folks. The rest of them take after the other side of the family.

Family Good People Rest Traveled

When I was seven and told my mom, 'I'm gonna be a writer,' she said, 'Oh, that's a terrible idea. You'll live in misery and die teaching other people's children badly.' My parents wanted the safer path for me, and I think they failed miserably achieving that.

Live Children Path Parents Me Mom

Audacity is central to everything I do. A lot of times I think my work is about just seeing if I can get away with it.

Work Think Seeing I Can Everything

Don't believe everything you read in the press. If somebody starts with me, I try to mess them up, but I don't look for trouble.

Me Believe You Look Trouble Try

I believe if you're not completely in love with what you're doing, you'd better find another profession.

Love Believe Better Doing You Find

I attended public school in Houston. I took piano lessons for several years, and in high school, I played trombone in the marching band. I remember especially enjoying two seasonal activities: ice skating with the Houston Figure Skating Club in the winter and visiting an aunt and uncle's farm in West Texas in the summer.

Robert Woodrow Wilson

Winter School High School Texas Farm

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