David E. Kelley Quotes
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I'm an escapist kind of writer.
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Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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I've never wanted to live in a ghetto or write in a ghetto. I want to write about a world that reflects the one most people live in. Gay people are just one aspect of that.
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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
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The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
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There are some great human beings out there. That's all I can say.
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If what I read doesn't reflect my life - whether I'm gay or Latino or on welfare - doesn't that really mean that my life is not valuable?
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Yeah, I definitely want to find that right person and fall in love and have kids someday.
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I had 12 years in the Army before I ever faced combat.
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TV in all its ugliness can be a beautiful thing.
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Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.
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Every child in America deserves high-quality health care.
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I was fascinated by each area I studied, whether neurology, urology or surgery.
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One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to the living word; in the child, nightside and sunside are not yet separated; fantasy contains truths which cannot be stated in terms of proof.
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The presidency has a funny way of making a person feel the need to pray.
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In accordance with the prarabdha of each, the One whose function it is to ordain makes each to act. What will not happen will never happen, whatever effort one may put forth. And what will happen will not fail to happen, however much one may seek to prevent it. This is certain. The part of wisdom therefore is to stay quiet.
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I have always weirdly seen myself as more of a character actor. I have never been suave. I could never see myself playing James Bond. I suppose I could fake it, but I am certainly not James Bond in real life.
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When my colleagues went to endorse Rob Garagiola, nobody asked me for my opinion about that. And I didn't ask anybody else. I did what I thought was the right thing to do, and I made a decision, just like they did.
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Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. ... It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.
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I pledge allegiance to the living, and I will defend art from history. I will rescue art from the future, from its attrition into taste, and from the speculative notion that it will become more valuable with time.
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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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We also have issue oriented storylines which are an examination of an issue, be it ethical or social.
