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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There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
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One day, I was taken into a room with 25 animators, all working on Sadness. They asked me a lot of questions, and they got something of the way I move into the character.
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I think I'm very interested in people, in the way our minds work and how we navigate through the experience that is life. Very interested in people's struggles and their choices and their regrets and joys. I'm very interested in the human animal.
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I get such joy out of performing for people, and you can tell whether they like you or they don't like you the minute you walk out on the stage. And they don't even have to tell me that they had a good time. I know they had a good time.
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Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
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So I think a writer should write what he loves, the people he relates to.
