David E. Kelley Quotes

So I think a writer should write what he loves, the people he relates to.

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• Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Imagination
  • Never
  • Carry

• 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.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Time
  • Focus
  • Hair

• 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.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • United States
  • Israel
  • Relations

• I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Age
  • Perfect
  • Youth

• Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Illusions
  • Drop
  • Luggage

• A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Good
  • Man
  • Advice

• I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Want
  • Picture
  • Paint

• A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Good
  • Guys
  • Date

• It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.

  

  Vernon A. Walters
  • Never
  • Endless
  • Surprises

• I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Money
  • Thought
  • Movies

• 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.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • Bad
  • You
  • Fighting

• In general, while Trump has been a master of Twitter, he has shown an aversion to, and ignorance of, technology itself.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Technology
  • Trump
  • Ignorance

• My wife never throws anything at me that I can't handle.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Me
  • Wife
  • Handle

• 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.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Guy

• The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • People
  • Time
  • Technology

• 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.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Crime
  • Bed

• Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Future
  • Opportunity
  • Education

• Why do I love Roald Dahl? His voice, more than anything. It's irreproducible. It's so musical, and it's funny even when it's not trying to be, which is most of the time.

  

  Jesse Andrews
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Why

• A month's salary, deep regret, the telephone number of some foul rehab clinic and my lance was free.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Regret
  • Foul
  • Clinic

• One family, one nation, indivisible. That mentality is essential for our salvation.

  

  Louis Gossett, Jr.
  • Family

• I need freedom to be happy.

  

  Johnny Weissmuller
  • Happy
  • Freedom

• A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn't considered pathological, we are outside of time.

  

  Richard Powers
  • Human
  • Considered
  • Retreat

• So I think a writer should write what he loves, the people he relates to.

  

  David E. Kelley
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