David M. Kelley Quotes

The profession of being a creative thinker is not so obvious.

David M. Kelley

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• I went to a Steiner School, which is very small and nurturing and creative, so I felt like I was in an environment where I could mature. There was less of the clique-y stuff, which can really make high school a living hell for a lot of people, going on, so I was very similar then to who I am now. I'm still a dork.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • School
  • Small
  • Environment

• I was doing those roles on ABC Family late in the year, and at the same time, I was auditioning for 'Galavant.' But 'Galavant' was quite a wide casting call. I wasn't recommended or anything. It just kind of happened.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Time
  • Family
  • Year

• I have one. I may get another during the off-season, I might get my son's name but I'm not sure yet. The one I have is my Hebrew name, which I share with my grandfather, and it's not the best tattoo.

  

  Adam Pally
  • May
  • Best
  • Son

• Contrary to all the blather we here about the unique goodness of the American people or our religious heritage or anything else, the one thing that set this country apart from all others was the Bill of Rights.

  

  Harry Browne
  • People
  • Country
  • American

• I'm just very pleased and thankful that there was a receptive audience of people that I was able to connect with.

  

  Fab Five Freddy
  • People
  • Audience
  • Thankful

• Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Past
  • Now
  • Alchemy

• My goal is to bridge the gap between social media and traditional media.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Goal
  • Media
  • Bridge

• Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Elegance
  • Forgetting

• Solving a problem created by debt... by creating more debt is a fool's errand.

  

  Olivier Sarkozy
  • Problem
  • Fool
  • Debt

• I was never much of a singer. I was terrible. It's embarrassing: I was trying to sound like everybody else. I went through a big Cure phase, so I was trying to do that kind of dramatic voice.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Trying
  • Voice
  • Sound

• As a young athlete, it was first about having fun; then it was about winning.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Fun
  • Winning
  • Athlete

• I wanted a real profession. And I'd always been interested in architecture and in design and in, really, what makes things work. And understanding what's kind of behind the walls and why things stand up and some things don't.

  

  S. J. Rozan
  • Up
  • Work
  • Real

• An hour of violin lessons in Berlin is an hour where you get the child interested in music. An hour in a violin lesson in Palestine is an hour away from violence, is an hour away from fundamentalism.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Violence
  • Child

• A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Money
  • Man
  • Funny

• If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • God
  • You
  • Study

• The jaws' hooked clamp and fangsNot to be changed at this date;A life subdued to its instrument.

  

  Ted Hughes
  • Life

• Don’t allow the colonialists to introduce their terrorists as representatives of Islam (January 21, 2015) 1

  

  Ali Khamenei

• I'd rather go ice fishing, which is the dumbest thing a man can do. You're sitting essentially in an out house and it's 30 below. You've cut a hole in the ice, and you're fishing for fish that you shouldn't eat, ‘cause any fish that is down there is fucking stupid.

  

  Lewis Black
  • House
  • Stupid
  • Fishing

• Writing careers are short. For every 100 writers, 99 never get published. Of those who do, only one in every hundred gets a career out of it, so I count myself as immensely privileged.

  

  Jim Crace
  • Writing
  • Career

• There are so many challenges and different parts to the job of singing. When you're in the studio, you have to be really, really, precise. You've got to keep everything clean and nice because that's going to be something that's down forever. And then you go onstage, and it's much more in the moment.

  

  Paul Rodgers Bad Company
  • Different
  • Job
  • Nice

• Never forget that you only have one opportunity to make a first impression - with investors, with customers, with PR, and with marketing.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Opportunity
  • Marketing
  • Never Forget

• I'm not sure that, for a lot of people, the real world is an easy place to live in. And yet we still soldier on.

  

  Jeph Loeb
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• Bands are about these little relationships that make everything tick, and when you create new music you're testing those relationships.

  

  Jonathan Cain
  • Music

• The profession of being a creative thinker is not so obvious.

  

  David M. Kelley