Tracy Letts Quotes

I'm just a Chicago actor who's a playwright. Even with the success of 'August,' the people in town who come to our theater know me by sight, because they've seen me onstage so much.

Tracy Letts

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Ninety-five percent of my audience was white.

Jimmy Smith

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There is something so quiet and so industrious, something so Viking about the Scots.

Joanna Lumley

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That's how me and my friends are. We love our personal relationships, but we have things we want to accomplish.

Jessica Williams

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I wasn't allowed to watch regular television when I was growing up, only PBS, so I watched 'Masterpiece Theatre' and a lot of Jane Austen. I loved stories where the girl is attracted to a man and it looks like it's not going to work out.

Jennifer Coolidge

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I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that there is great value to the quiet, contemplative process of reading a novel, that reading great books carefully offers pleasures and consolations that no iPad app ever can.

John Green

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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

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People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.

Robert Half

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Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors.

Simone Veil

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People who don't travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what's in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live.

Martin Yan

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Some people are saying, 'Justin Bieber is racist.' Is he? I don't know.

Don Lemon

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We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it.

Boris Yeltsin

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I think my wife has struggled a bit because of how obsessive I get with what I eat and stuff.

Bradley Wiggins

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