David E. Kelley Quotes
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I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
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I find dates, in general, horrific. We have to sit there and ask these questions and pretend to eat a meal, and it just feels so stiff.
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I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.
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I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.
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Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.
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Women should learn from men to compartmentalize. It's a great skill that some women have naturally but others have to practice. The goal is to keep one area of your life that might not be going well from causing unnecessary disruptions in another area.
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The motivation is important for me to act it, but I don't necessarily want the audience to know my motivation.
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Love yourself instead of abusing yourself.
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But nothing beats a Woody Allen film on a Sunday night, with a glass of wine and some leftovers.
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Leaks are always bad news.
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My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.
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As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience.
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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What we're showing may not be your reality, but it's ours.
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The more I come to know about the outside world's perception of China, the more I feel there are all sorts of misunderstandings, and to a certain extent, people do not get the full picture from the media. A lot of foreigners have few opportunities to visit China, and a lot of Chinese people do not have the chance to go to Europe or to the West.
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I'm sure I was a great disappointment to many women because I wasn't Errol Flynn. But I'm me. I think that's got some merit.
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I did physics because of my love of nature. As a young student of science, I was taught that physics was the way to learn nature. So my travels through physics really are the same urges that make me travel through ecology.
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This business [moviemaking] isn't easy. It's a hard business. You just keep plugging away until you figure it out. You write something you love and keep banging on people's heads until somebody lets you do it.
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Socrates and Plato are right: whatever man does he always does well, that is, he does that which seems to him good (useful) according to the degree of his intellect, the particular standard of his reasonableness.
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If one group of people can exterminate another in the name of so-called religion, the world has no hope.
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My sister's a musician. Everyone else in our family, it's either academics or artists of one kind or another. And those are the people that I think I like to hang out with, too. I think, you know, they're always interesting; they lead interesting lives, and I think they're important for everyone to read about because everyone is an artist in a way.
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I never thought of myself as a writer.
