Top 43 David M Kelley Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About David M Kelley

#1. I went to Carnegie Mellon and was an electrical engineer, but electrical engineering wasn't right for me.

#2. The more lawyers there are, the more people are out there to encourage others not to go to law school.

#3. I don't think people do anything out of fear very well. So I think the only choice is to have them intrinsically motivated.

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

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#5. But Steven Bochco was smart; he knew that viewers were smart.

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#6. It is out of character for a country that prides itself on intellectual freedom to put the education of its young in the hands of the state.

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#7. When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me.

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#8. My court skills may have atrophied.

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#9. If you interview people or friends who work with me, they would say I'm private or internal or don't emote a lot. Yet I do it every day for 10 million people. I just don't do it for the 30 people I'm in the room with.

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#10. People are out of their home on a Saturday night or they're at the movies or they're at dinner and a lot of the people who flip on the television are doing just that. They may have never seen your show before and you can't count on to your audience to be there week in and week out.

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#11. I gravitate toward the law, I think, certainly more times than not, because it's our best mechanism for legislating human behavior, and morality, and ethics.

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#12. Chemistry is not anything an executive producer or writer can orchestrate or plan; you just hope for it.

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#13. I grew up in L.A., so I'm a huge Lakers fan and Kobe fan.

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#14. You've got to honor your relationship with your audience - that they sit down because they want to be entertained. And that doesn't mean you can't provoke them and antagonize them and challenge them in the course of the entertainment as long as you keep the entertainment part of the equation alive.

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#15. The designer ... has a passion for doing something that fits somebody's needs, but that is not just a simple fix. The designer has a dream that goes beyond what exists, rather than fixing what exists ... the designer wants to create a solution that fits in a deeper situational or social sense.

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#16. Failure sucks, but instructs.

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#17. Striving for perfection can get in the way during the early stages of the creative process.

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#18. Everybody said, 'You hit it so big when you were on 'Ally McBeal.' ' I didn't do anything for a year after 'Ally McBeal,' and I had to write David Kelley to get myself back on 'Ally' a second time because I thought the character should be on again.

Josh Ryan Evans

#19. 'Monday Mornings' is terrific. It's my wife's show. I'm just lucky enough that David Kelley threw me a bone on it as well. It's a wonderful piece based on a novel by Dr. Sanjay Gupta called 'Monday Mornings.'

Jonathan Silverman

#20. I've never really told jokes. I'm not good at it.

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#21. When I really have to push and grope and scratch and claw to make a story work, that's a telltale sign that maybe something conceptually isn't right.

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#22. Fail faster. Succeed sooner." - David Kelley, founder IDEO

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#23. The way I would measure leadership is this: of the people that are working with me, how many wake up in the morning thinking that the company is theirs?

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#24. I don't think I could write a straight drama.

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#25. When you create a show, and create characters, these people are like children to you.

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#26. I always found that if you handle a problem in a benevolent way and a transparent way and involve other people, so it's just not your personal opinion, that people get to the other side of these difficult conversations being more enthusiastic.

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#27. The way I personally work is I like to write what I know, what I feel, and also where I am.

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#28. We also have issue oriented storylines which are an examination of an issue, be it ethical or social.

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#29. In retrospect, I think it's a plus, because now we've been able to go back and spend extra time on each of those episodes and make them better.

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#30. You learn more when things go wrong.

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#31. It gets harder and harder to succeed and find audiences with the 500-channel universe, the remote control, and people being so trigger happy with that remote control. It just gets harder to get a foothold.

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#32. The main tenet of design thinking is empathy for the people you're trying to design for. Leadership is exactly the same thing - building empathy for the people that you're entrusted to help.

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#33. I don't think it's that strange that a show has sort of a bumpy beginning. It's just part and parcel of the process.

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#34. For me, I'm happy to succeed on any network.

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#35. 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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#36. Belief in your creative capacity lies at the heart of innovation.

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#37. When I look back at it, I'm mostly amazed at how poorly it was shot. David Kelley is a great writer, and I thought the scripts were great, but it just looks so cheap.

Peter Berg

#38. I don't think I ever got the hang of the writers' room. I love collaborating with people, but I really do my best work alone, and I think I would want to - if I did something again, I think I'd want to take total ownership the way Aaron Sorkin or David Kelley does.

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