David Lange Quotes
One minute I was a clapped-out, two-guinea, legal-aid lawyer, and the next minute I was in parliament.
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People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to talk to some lawyer about how to get an alimony settlement better than they got last week.
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As a trial lawyer, intelligence is important only in the sense that it allows you to play the game, if you will. Without it, you don't even have a ticket into the competitive arena. But beyond that, it doesn't get you very far at all.
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And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer.
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My initial thoughts of becoming a lawyer changed in high school as I became more attracted to math and science and began talking about being an engineer.
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When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union leader.
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Running for office is similar to being a trial lawyer in a very long trial. It requires adrenaline and stamina; it requires being in shape mentally and emotionally. It's a marathon.
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I've never worked on a lawyer show for a long time, but I imagine the actors all start acting like lawyers.
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I'd say my artistic bent definitely came from my father, who was a trial lawyer. And if you're smart, you know that a trial lawyer isn't that different from an actor. He was a poet as well.
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Art is kind of the lens through which I think about God.
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When I was starting out, young actresses had the studio system to protect them. Now you have a host of sharks, from your agent to your publicist to your lawyer.
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Lasker mouthed, 'Trust him,' and Max sighed. Trust a lawyer? It flew in the face of his most cherished principles.
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Marriage is rarely bliss But, surely it would be worse As particles to pelt At thousands of miles per sec About a universe In which a lover's kiss Would either not be felt Or break the loved one's neck.
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It may be that the jury would incline to regard a practising lawyer as a man of probity whose word was prima facie worthy of belief. But the belief of lawyers in their own probity is not universally shared, and there are those who believe them to be capable of almost any chicanery or sharp practice.
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A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
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A common and not necessarily apocryphal example portrays a solo practitioner starved for business in a small town. A second lawyer then arrives, and they both prosper.
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The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches.
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When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.
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Your attitude will go a long way in determining your success, your recognition, your reputation and your enjoyment in being a lawyer.
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I played a lawyer once, and I had about three or four weeks before we shot, so I was able to go to court and watch lawyers at work. Some were good lawyers and some were bad lawyers, but it was essential. The more time you have to prepare, the better. Always.
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As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who should have been punished and are not, and people who were punished wrongfully are not vindicated. Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.
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I love to play characters who are stuffy and nerdy who either then have a dark side or are pushed to a breaking point.
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David Bowie was awesome the easiest, coolest interview I have ever done.
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You have to keep your audience in your mind; if you're writing stuff that you know nobody's going to care about then you should rethink what you're doing!
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One minute I was a clapped-out, two-guinea, legal-aid lawyer, and the next minute I was in parliament.
