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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Going to bed can cause imaginary conversations you should have had with certain people or real conversations with your brother who is calling from a bar in a different time zone.
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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 scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
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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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I remember seeing war hero Jimmy Doolittle fly a Gee Bee racer there. He was my childhood hero. Many years later, I was lucky enough to go hunting with him.
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If you are wearing the right jersey, people rallying in around you, and hugging each other when you win, and there's so much love and excitement when you're together. And then people seem to walk away, take their jerseys off, and start focusing on the color of your skin. It didn't matter for that couple hours at the game - why does it matter now?
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If Obamacare is allowed to stand - and Congress is allowed to make the purchase of government-endorsed health insurance compulsory - there will be no meaningful limit on Washington's reach into the lives of the American people. That is certainly not what the Founders intended.
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Most people go through their whole lives without killing anybody. False argument.
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When I was 6, I held on to my mother's skirt, screaming that I wanted to be a dancer. She enrolled me in an academy in Madrid when I turned 8.
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So I think a writer should write what he loves, the people he relates to.
