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

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

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

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• I don’t think I could write a straight drama.

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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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• I miss Denny Crane.

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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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• I never thought of myself as a writer.

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

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• I’ve never really told jokes. I’m not good at it.

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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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• 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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• My court skills may have atrophied.

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

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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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David E. Kelley (25)

Birth:	4th April, 1956
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lawyer, Producer, Screenwriter

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David Edward Kelley was born in Waterville, Maine. He is an American lawyer, screenwriter and producer, known as the creator of Picket Fences, Chicago Hope, The Practice, Ally McBeal, Boston Public, Boston Legal, and Harry's Law as well as several films. He graduated in 1979 with a bachelor's degree in political science. He received his Juris Doctor from Boston University School of Law. He began working for a Boston law firm, mostly dealing with real estate and minor criminal cases.

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