David E. Kelley Quotes
But I do believe that in all my shows, I really enjoy the quirky, the eccentric characters, the ones you don't meet every day.
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My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
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When you're in trouble, all you need is your bank card and passport, and you're fine.
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.
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The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.
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The earliest stories in Genesis were not written to tell primeval history. They were written to tell readers about themselves and about God.
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It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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Take the time today to understand your contribution to any bad event you've just been through.
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I'd been brought up on musicals. Instead of cartoons, we watched videocassettes of musicals at home.
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I sold a bunch of stuff. I sold Omaha Steaks, vacation packages... the worst, though, was Time Life Books, because no one wants Time Life Books. No one wants an 'Encyclopedia Brittanica' showing up at their house.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.
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As an actor, you look for roles that can constantly challenge you and you can learn from.
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Let us learn from the lessons of September 11 and not wait for a major strike before we act. We must work together - Democrats and Republicans, Congress and the White House, government and the private sector - to make our country a safer and more prosperous place.
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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
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There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.
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Sometimes I will read the whole script just to see what my character is doing, but I won't touch a script that I'm not in because it's just so much more exciting as a fan to me to watch the show as it's happening.
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I like rain, actually.
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I don't know if it's a very smart idea to admire the living.
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I don't really believe in anything special, but I respect God. I go to church sometimes, but not often.
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But I do believe that in all my shows, I really enjoy the quirky, the eccentric characters, the ones you don't meet every day.
