"When books and plays are made into movies,……" — Tracy Letts
"When books and plays are made into movies, they frequently want to cut out the valleys and just show the peaks."
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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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I like it when actors get an opportunity to chew into something. They love scenes with beginnings, middles, and ends…
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More Books Quotes
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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to…
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is…
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I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,…
— Sean Astin
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I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.
— Margaret Atwood
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Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the…
— Margaret Atwood
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Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But…
— Margaret Atwood
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I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed…
— Margaret Atwood
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I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody…
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If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a…
— Margaret Atwood
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of…
— Norman Ralph Augustine
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