David E. Kelley Quotes
People are out of their home on a Saturday night or they're at the movies or they're at dinner and a lot of the people who flip on the television are doing just that. They may have never seen your show before and you can't count on to your audience to be there week in and week out.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.
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As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.
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He who gives love, receives love.
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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Throughout history, clothes represented who you were; they are a great vehicle for explaining who you are. During the Ching dynasty, for example, what you wore and how it was made reflected your status in society. People could literally read your clothes like a book, just by its color and how it was embroidered.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
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A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
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I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
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I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.
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For years I've been hearing 20-somethings say they don't expect Social Security to be around when they hit 65. Eventually, I came to realize that they really mean that they just don't expect to be 65. Or 40. Neither did I, when I was 22.
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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.
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It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career.
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Nobody scares me.
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I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the south is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes - a justifier of the most appalling barbarity, - a sanctifier of the most hateful frauds, - and a dark shelter under which the darkest, foulest, grossest, and most infernal deeds of slaveholders find the strongest protection.
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Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
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One has to completely humiliate oneself to be what the Beatles were . . . . It happened bit by bit, until . . . you're doing exactly what you don't want to do with people you can't stand -- the people you hated when you were ten.
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Everywhere I go people come up to me, they mob me - anyone who has MS or has a relative with MS - they come up and hug and cry.
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People are out of their home on a Saturday night or they're at the movies or they're at dinner and a lot of the people who flip on the television are doing just that. They may have never seen your show before and you can't count on to your audience to be there week in and week out.
