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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.

~David E. Kelley

Topics: Audiences Being Control Find Get Gets Happy Harder Just People Remote Succeed Trigger Universe

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

~David E. Kelley

Topics: Any Happy Me Network Succeed

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

~David E. Kelley

Topics: Characters Children Create Like People Show You

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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.

~David E. Kelley

Topics: Day Emote Every Every Day Friends Internal Interview Just Lot Me Million Million People People Private Room Say Who Work Would You

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

~David E. Kelley

Topics: Come Easily Feel Good Good Sign Me Process Sign Stories Writing Writing Process

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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.

~David E. Kelley

Topics: Alive Audience Because Challenge Course Down Entertained Entertainment Equation Got Honor Keep Long Mean Part Provoke Relationship Sit Them Want You Your

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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.

~David E. Kelley

Topics: Make Maybe Push Really Right Scratch Sign Something Story Work

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

~David E. Kelley

Topics: He Knew Smart Steven Viewers Were

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You learn more when things go wrong.

~David E. Kelley

Topics: Go Learn More Things Wrong You

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

~David E. Kelley

Topics: Good Jokes Never Really

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Producer

Born: April 4th, 1956

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