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" I think the law changes, which is a nice luxury. "
David E. Kelley
Law
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" 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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" 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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" We also have issue oriented storylines which are an examination of an issue, be it ethical or social. "
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" 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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" For me, I'm happy to succeed on any network. "
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" I've never really told jokes. I'm not good at it. "
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" One of the most fundamental questions people have about defense attorneys is, 'How can you do that? How can you go to bat everyday for a person that you may not know is guilty but you have a pretty good idea that he's not so innocent?' It's a question that defense attorneys answer for themselves by not addressing. "
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" I never thought of myself as a writer. "
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" But Steven Bochco was smart; he knew that viewers were smart. "
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" I miss Denny Crane. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Chemistry is not anything an executive producer or writer can orchestrate or plan; you just hope for it. "
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" Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses. "
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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. "
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