David E. Kelley Quotes
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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I really like using the softening cream. It helps me go out there with confidence to do what I need to do, and at the same time, it's very functional and helps keep the hair out of my mouth so I can focus on pitching.
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As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.
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In general, while Trump has been a master of Twitter, he has shown an aversion to, and ignorance of, technology itself.
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My wife never throws anything at me that I can't handle.
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I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.
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As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.
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Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.
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I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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Experimenting with your own life is the most fundamental medium we have.
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Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
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You cannot underestimate people's ability to spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away. It's a big reason why so many companies that have dipped a toe in social media waters have failed miserably.
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I have 'To Kill A Mockingbird' signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession.
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There's nothing like having a bit of somebody else in you.
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My mother's a singer and my mother's father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians.
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The Booker thing was a catalyst for me in a bizarre way. It’s perceived as an accolade to be published as a ‘literary’ writer, but, actually, it’s pompous and it’s fake. Literary fiction is often nothing more than a genre in itself. I’d always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s, as substitutes for experience.
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I make a timeless music. I think I've made my mark as a lyricist and as an innovator and as a tastemaker.
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The one thing a person wants in life is usually something basic that money can't buy.
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So I think a writer should write what he loves, the people he relates to.
