"The way we tell our stories on stage……" — Tracy Letts
"The way we tell our stories on stage is that we use spoken word to convey action, and in movies, we use visual images to convey action."
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14 Quotes by Tracy Letts
Tracy Letts has 14 quotes on this site.
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Divorce is an embarrassing public admission of defeat.
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All women need makeup. Don't let anybody tell you different. The only woman who was pretty enough to go without…
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The window shades have all been removed. Nighttime is now free to encroach.
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I mean there’s a certain finality about a movie, when it’s done it’s done – that raised eyebrow in that…
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After the success of 'August,' there were people saying I should change my life. And maybe I should have bought…
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I don't know what it says about me that I have a greater affinity with the damaged. Probably nothing good.
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My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love.
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We're all just people, some of us accidentally connected by genetics, a random selection of cells. Nothing more.
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Thank God we can't tell the future. We'd never get out of bed.
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Listen to me: die after me, all right? I don't care what else you do, where you go, how you…
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In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer…
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When books and plays are made into movies, they frequently want to cut out the valleys and just show the…
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More Action Quotes
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
— Hannah Arendt
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
— Hannah Arendt
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
— Hannah Arendt
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
— Aristotle
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Well begun is half done.
— Aristotle
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
— Aristotle
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
— Aristotle
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
— Aristotle
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