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Tracy Letts Quotes

When books and plays are made into movies, they frequently want to cut out the valleys and just show the peaks.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: playwright
Nationality: american
Birth: July 4, 1965

Topics

Want Movies Out Cut Valleys Just

By making yourself better, that's how you make your team better.

Jimmy Garoppolo

Yourself Team Better You Your How

This is how a revolution begins. It begins when someone grows tired of standing idly by, waiting for history's arc to bend toward justice, and instead decides to give it a swift shove. It begins when a black seamstress named Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in the segregated South.

History Justice Man Tired Waiting

The most memorable moment was playing drums with Bob Dylan.

Moment Memorable Playing Drums Most

Being a writer is an endless study in human transition and lessons learned or forgotten or misapplied.

Transition Human Study Forgotten

I'd like to see more female heads of studios because what's also being crucially lost is the female perspective: 50% of the population are not having their stories told.

Perspective Lost More See Population

I wasn't sure pop art or my work would last more than six months.

Roy Lichtenstein

Work Art More Last Sure Pop

We were the first people who did investigative stuff, who asked occasionally abrasive, occasionally confrontational questions.

People Questions First Who Stuff

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

Death Reading Long Journal Like His

Jewellery's not a big thing for me. The only thing I wear is a gold cross on a chain that I got for my 21st birthday. You have to take it off every day for filming, but that's the only time I'm not wearing it. You won't find me in rings, bracelets or earrings.

Jonas Armstrong

Birthday Time Day Me Gold You

Because muscle is heavier than fat, dancers weigh more than you might think, but they are usually very lean.

Think Fat You More Muscle Dancers

'She's a Mystery to Me' was released in 1987, when I was 11 or something, and I absolutely adored the song. This song was written by Bono and The Edge, and the story goes that Bono woke up with the tune in his head, then thought that the only voice who could sing this song is Roy Orbison.

Me Song Voice Story Thought Mystery

I think the strength of the man is to have the right balance. Not to be so high when you win; not to be so down when you lose.

Claudio Ranieri

Strength Man Balance Win Think Lose

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