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David E. Kelley

David Edward Kelley (born April 4, 1956) is an American television writer and producer, known as the creator of Picket Fences, Chicago Hope, The Practice, Ally McBeal, Boston Public, Boston Legal, Harry's Law, Big Little Lies, and Mr. Mercedes, as well as several films. Kelley is one of very few screenwriters to have created shows aired on all four top commercial U.S. television networks (ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC).

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

Encouragement, School, Law, Encourage

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

Writing, Way, Feels, Personally, Like, Work

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.

Dream, Passion, Simple, Fits, Social, Designer

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.

Flip, Home, Night, People, Show

Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.

Teacher, School, Imagination, Making, Excuses, High

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

Chemistry, Producers, Plans, Producer, Plan, Hope

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.

Emote, Friends, Internal, Interviews, People, Rooms

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.

Ethics, Gravitate, Human, Law, Morality, Thinking

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

Character, Children, Create, People

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

Succeed, Happy, Network

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.

Thinking, Strange, Process, Parcel, Part

So I think a writer should write what he loves, the people he relates to.

People, Relates, Thinking, Writer, Writing

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

Writing, Stories, Process, Easily, Laboring

My court skills may have atrophied.

Atrophied, Court, May, Skills

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.

Extra, Extra Time, Plus, Retrospect, Thinking, Time

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

Bochco, Smart, Steven, Viewers

You learn more when things go wrong.

Learn, Things, When Things Go Wrong, Wrong

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.

Believe, Character, Quirky, Ones, Shows

I think the law changes, which is a nice luxury.

Nice, Thinking, Law, Changes, Think

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

Ethical, Examination, Issues, Storylines