David E. Kelley Quotes

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David E. Kelley

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• There's the wonder of being able to do research from your own living room, of course. I do find that my biggest research issue, though, is how to frame my questions.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Wonder
  • Research
  • Questions

• I am a big PETA supporter, and their East Coast headquarters is the Sam Simon building, and their West Coast headquarters is in the Bob Barker building.

  

  Sam Simon
  • Building
  • Supporter
  • PETA

• I think everyone is forgetting what plastic surgery is for - if you have a face-eating tumour, lose a breast or are involved in a car accident, then it's a good idea.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Good
  • Think
  • Car

• The story of 'A Dog's Purpose' flowed into me a set piece. The entire book was just there, as if I were connected to a streaming service, a novel wholly formed of character and plot. This has never happened to me before or since. I prayed for help and I got it. A gift.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Character
  • Book
  • Help

• A lot of people have asked whether acting is in my genes. I don't know if anyone is born to act. And it certainly wasn't pushed on me. It was something I wanted to do.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Born
  • Act

• If a great outfit gets you one step closer to feeling good about yourself, then it's worth every penny.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Good
  • Great
  • Feeling

• Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Government
  • Opinion
  • Polls

• I basically say I'm on tour all the time, because one tour goes into the next.

  

  Natalie MacMaster
  • Time
  • Say
  • Tour

• And I haven't read a lot of blogs but if someone writes about what they care about I'm sure it's interesting.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Interesting
  • Care
  • Someone

• The first time I fell in love, I was in my 20s, and I loved someone right till I was 31. And then I felt that emotion died within me. I wasn't feeling alive at all.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Time
  • Feeling
  • Emotion

• People say that this new generation is so used to the Internet that their heads are already different. They can't read a book from beginning to end. That is not a tragedy. The book changes form.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Different
  • Book

• Let's face it, the great comedians now that are handicapped in the looks department are tremendous writers.

  

  Jack Black
  • Great
  • Face
  • Now

• I've been playing my instrument since I was about three or four. That's when I started banging around on the piano, trying to be like The Beatles.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Trying
  • Three
  • Piano

• I see a New York where there is no barrier to the God-given potential of every New Yorker. I see a New York where everyone who wants a good job can find one. I see a New York where the people can believe in a grounded government again.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • People
  • Good
  • God

• It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Long
  • Think
  • Control

• Anyone is welcome to hang out with me and have fun or sit down with me and talk. I don't discriminate against anyone. And I don't condone hating someone or treating them badly because they live differently than I do.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Live
  • Fun
  • Welcome

• I think soul is soul. I don't see new soul as any different to old soul.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Different
  • Think
  • Soul

• When you speak the truth, people realize that.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • People
  • Truth
  • Speak

• I chose 'No. 1 Ladies' Detective,' or I'll say it chose me, and it was an absolute blessing, for the experience of being in Africa for seven months and learning so many different things, from languages to foods to greetings. On so many levels, it was an incredible experience.

  

  Jill Scott
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Learning

• I think globalization is a great thing. And now a lot of people complain about globalization; a lot of people don't like, you know, the globalize of the concept, the idea of the results. I think the globalization is a great idea and to create a lot of jobs.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Great
  • Globalization

• Ocean planets might be very common in the universe because water is very common in the low-temperature environments where planets form and evolve. This might be especially true for super-Earths, which can retain volatiles more easily thanks to their larger mass and surface gravity.

  

  Dimitar Sasselov
  • True
  • Water
  • Universe

• And writing in a foreign language, you come to realise how words create not only a single image but a series of images, so that if the image created in the mind of the writer is different from the image in the mind of the reader, there will not be complete understanding between them.

  

  Attia Hosain
  • Understanding
  • Writer
  • Image

• I took the two most expensive aspirins in history.

  

  Wally Pipp
  • History
  • Expensive
  • Aspirins

• You learn more when things go wrong.

  

  David E. Kelley