Tracy Letts quote: "You're thoughtful, Barbara, but you're not open. You're passionate, but you're hard. You're a good, decent, funny, wonderful woman, and I love you, but you're a pain in the ass."

'Killer Joe' was originally written in 1991 and first produced in '93 at the Next Theate...
TRACY LETTS

I don't believe moviegoers don't have patience. Screenwriters are told a scene can't be ...
TRACY LETTS

After the success of 'August,' there were people saying I should change my life. And maybe I...
TRACY LETTS

The nature of the beast is that film is a director's medium. It's not a Tracy Letts play, it...
TRACY LETTS

Some people do stage and film. Some people are film actors, and some people are stage actors. I'...
TRACY LETTS

When I write a play, and we read it for the first time, the great fear is that everybody is going to...
TRACY LETTS

One of the things you hope you've done as a playwright is create roles that can sustain differen...
TRACY LETTS

I grew up in a small town, in a small community, and I would not have had access to great plays when...
TRACY LETTS

'Killer Joe' provides a lot of red meat for the theater. Pam MacKinnon is the perfect direct...
TRACY LETTS

It's not a natural translation, transition, to take something from stage to screen. Onstage your...
TRACY LETTS

The way we tell our stories on stage is that we use spoken word to convey action, and in movies, we ...
TRACY LETTS

It?s a big advantage for me. My opponent is looking at an opponent that has won it all.
MIKE LETTS

You ever think about this? Every year you live, you pass the anniversary of your death. Now you don'...
BILLIE LETTS

I used to think that if I were a certain kind of person I would spend all my time creating something...
JASON LETTS

I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.
TRACY MORGAN

People live too much of their lives on email or the Internet or text messages these days. We're ...
TRACY MORGAN

Maybe it's naive to say, but it almost seems like, in the past, people tried to sell you somethi...
TRACY CHAPMAN

I'm not a child star, but you could say that I've grown up on TV. I went from being an unkno...
TRACY MORGAN

Listen, Bruce Lee fought out of anger. That's why they call it the 'Fists of Fury.' Mich...
TRACY MORGAN

Michael's the ultimate entertainer. After Michael Jackson, it's Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra...
TRACY MORGAN

Know your lines and don't bump into the furniture.
SPENCER TRACY

Oftentimes, heavy weights can tear the muscle fiber causing it to bulk, but using a lighter weight f...
TRACY ANDERSON

You can't hold me to the same standard as the president or a school teacher. I'm just a come...
TRACY MORGAN

Eighty percent of life's satisfaction comes from meaningful relationships.
BRIAN TRACY

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.
BRIAN TRACY

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future...
BRIAN TRACY

Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really...
BRIAN TRACY

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active...
BRIAN TRACY

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.
BRIAN TRACY

The market is reassured that Bush didn't do anything wrong.
ADAM TRACY

All of the conversation is how he's going to write it.
ADAM TRACY

[Wednesday] could rival the Friday after Thanksgiving for the slowest day of the year.
ADAM TRACY

Volume has been pretty light. Tomorrow could rival the Friday after Thanksgiving for the slowest day...
ADAM TRACY

Everyone's worry on the economy was jobs. Today's report was unexpected by most people and it allaye...
ADAM TRACY

That's the No. 1 fear, and you've had pretty much every Fed governor come out in the last two weeks ...
ADAM TRACY

Storm worries got things going. That kind of put the buyers on hold.
ADAM TRACY

As a human race, we lost and we are still losing a lot of humanity in the process of progress
TRACY SILLATO

Humans can be inhuman and greed is to blame for it.
TRACY SILLATO

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highro...
BRIAN TRACY

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
BRIAN TRACY

Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really...
BRIAN TRACY

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.
BRIAN TRACY

The Future belongs to the competent get good, get better, be the best !
BRIAN TRACY

Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.
BRIAN TRACY

Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.
BRIAN TRACY

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
BRIAN TRACY

The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a wor...
BRIAN TRACY

You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used thr...
BRIAN TRACY

The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and ...
BRIAN TRACY

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active....
BRIAN TRACY

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
SPENCER TRACY

When you engage in systematic, purposeful actin, using and stretching your abilities to the maximum,...
BRIAN TRACY

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing...
BRIAN TRACY

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out ...
BRIAN TRACY

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
BRIAN TRACY

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better tha...
BRIAN TRACY

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.
BRIAN TRACY

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.
BRIAN TRACY

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.
BRIAN TRACY

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be success...
BRIAN TRACY

Successful people are simply those with success habits.
BRIAN TRACY

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you ...
BRIAN TRACY

How much we like ourselves governs our performance.
BRIAN TRACY

I know a lot of people think it's monotonous, down the black lines over and over, but it's not if yo...
TRACY CAULKINS

I'm a hopeful cynic.
TRACY CHAPMAN

To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis.
TRACY AUSTIN

All successful people are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every resp...
BRIAN TRACY

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future...
BRIAN TRACY

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more lik...
BRIAN TRACY

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this i...
BRIAN TRACY

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are alway...
BRIAN TRACY

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
BRIAN TRACY

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
BRIAN TRACY

We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
BRIAN TRACY

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others.
Unsuccessful people are...
BRIAN TRACY

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheel...
BRIAN TRACY

I love working with Alec Baldwin. He's one of the five greatest actors ever to live.
TRACY MORGAN

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.
BRIAN TRACY

Michael and I had great role models. Though his father has passed away, his parents had an amazingly...
TRACY POLLAN

Younger women tend to be busier, wearing more layers and more make-up. I don't know if it's ...
TRACY CHEVALIER

I would love to try action films.
TRACY MORGAN

I have friends who are black, white, purple, gay, straight, Martian, yellow, old, and young. I have ...
TRACY MORGAN

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more act...
BRIAN TRACY

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you...
BRIAN TRACY

It's like going to the zoo when you come to my house. I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, p...
TRACY MORGAN

I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions and a bird spider. All of them are...
TRACY MORGAN

If you want a dancer's body, dance. Dance aerobics is my favourite cardio. It's very frustra...
TRACY ANDERSON

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwh...
BRIAN TRACY

The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more th...
BRIAN TRACY

The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.
BRIAN TRACY

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
BRIAN TRACY

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're...
BRIAN TRACY

Shoes are the finishing touch on any outfit and it is important to complete a look with the perfect ...
TRACY REESE

There are some concerns that are universal. Everyone wants to be loved, and everyone wants to feel l...
TRACY CHAPMAN

There is no real limit to how much better a person who really commits to getting better can get. Eve...
BRIAN TRACY

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for y...
BRIAN TRACY

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
BRIAN TRACY

Comedians are the monkeys of acting. When you go to the zoo, everybody loves the monkey exhibit.
TRACY MORGAN

Women with low self-esteem love bad boys. Women who have work to do love bad boys. Women who love th...
TRACY MCMILLAN

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to ...
TRACY KIDDER

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you w...
BRIAN TRACY

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that ...
BRIAN TRACY

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it's moving you away from your ...
BRIAN TRACY

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people withou...
BRIAN TRACY

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
BRIAN TRACY

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal...
BRIAN TRACY

Caring - about people, about things, about life - is an act of maturity.
TRACY MCMILLAN

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.
BRIAN TRACY

Tracy Morgan is subdued. I'm cool. I'm chilled out.
TRACY MORGAN

'Wayne of Gotham' is very much a father-and-son exploration. We've always seen Thomas Wa...
TRACY HICKMAN

The way popular music is categorized and formatted cuts down on everyone's options. And although...
TRACY CHAPMAN

My older sister encouraged me from early on and bought me one of the first guitars I had. She listen...
TRACY CHAPMAN

I feel that as long as you're honest, you have the opportunity to grow. It's when you shut d...
TRACY MCMILLAN

I don't believe in storks. I know they don't deliver babies; they deliver pickles.
TRACY MORGAN

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortabl...
BRIAN TRACY

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are alway...
BRIAN TRACY

Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally an...
TRACY CHAPMAN

I grew up with music in the house. I was told I could sing as soon as I started talking. Everybody i...
TRACY CHAPMAN

People are just way too sensitive. You couldn't have a show like 'Archie Bunker' on TV. ...
TRACY MORGAN

I tell people to be thankful that Madonna is showing that it's possible to be ageless - people s...
TRACY ANDERSON

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve ...
BRIAN TRACY

There's ups and downs of any job. If you worked at the post office, there's ups and downs. Y...
TRACY MORGAN

I've always been fascinated by the Norsemen, their lives, history and cosmology. The more we stu...
TRACY HICKMAN

I really wanted to make it as a ballet dancer to make my mom proud. But it didn't happen.
TRACY ANDERSON

Bad news travels at the speed of light; good news travels like molasses.
TRACY MORGAN

I think of masculine and feminine energy like two sides to a battery. There's a plus side and a ...
TRACY MCMILLAN

I'm a blunt person, not mean-spirited. I come from a place of love, but I'm interested in be...
TRACY MCMILLAN

Being funny wasn't a career choice growing up, it was my way out of situations; a way to survive...
TRACY MORGAN

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabi...
BRIAN TRACY

I'm a big, big movie fan. I watch 'The Ten Commandments' and the original 'Planet of...
TRACY MORGAN

Even though on the outside we glittered like gold, inside we were almost as black as coal. Sometimes...
TRACY KRIMMER

Sometime between when the Summer of Love ended and the Summer of Sam began, America became a nation ...
TRACY MCMILLAN

I'm a hopeful cynic.
TRACY CHAPMAN

I love '30 Rock' because Tina Fey allows me to fly over the cuckoo nest once a week.
TRACY MORGAN

I do stand up sometimes out of anger. Sometimes the greatest stuff comes from a dark place.
TRACY MORGAN

Now love's the only thing thats free. We must take it where it's found. Pretty soon it may be costly...
TRACY CHAPMAN

My older brother was born, who was a cripple, then I was born, and my sister was born, the only girl...
TRACY MORGAN

Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality.
BRIAN TRACY

When you're in the spotlight, people want to dissect you and then put you back together the way ...
TRACY MORGAN

Paul Farmer has helped to build amazing health care system in one of the poorest areas of Haiti. He ...
TRACY KIDDER

Cool is the enemy of funny. You can't be cool and be funny at the same time. Only Eddie Murphy c...
TRACY MORGAN

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.
BRIAN TRACY

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that e...
BRIAN TRACY

I see some recurring themes: things that feel threaded together, some symbolic references, and songs...
TRACY CHAPMAN

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are alway...
BRIAN TRACY

To sit on Mike Gonzalez until the ninth inning might have put you in a position where you don't get ...
JIM TRACY

My father was the role model I looked up to. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life aft...
TRACY MORGAN

Sometimes I think we're exposed to things we shouldn't be exposed to too early. I think that...
TRACY MORGAN

You have to be highly intelligent to get away with a dumb joke. That takes a pretty smart fella.
TRACY MORGAN

I mentioned that I received a scholarship to Episcopalian school, and the model for the school was &...
TRACY CHAPMAN

I was raised in a Baptist tradition, but then I went to an Episcopalian high school, and they were v...
TRACY CHAPMAN

I'm not the least bit shy about suggesting things to my players that make a lot of sense. I don't th...
JIM TRACY

I have some big shoes to fill. I am looking to hit it head on. Greenland has had a lot of success an...
TRACY SUTTON

The students really enjoyed the response from the adult day care center. I think that's when it real...
TRACY SMITH

Faith is the only thing we have right now.
TRACY SMITH

Kansas.gov provides a user-friendly gateway for citizens to efficiently interact with government. Th...
TRACY SMITH

It's truly unbelievable. Remember, this is one of the beacons of New Orleans: the convention center!...
TRACY SMITH

The schedule is something we wanted to address. We think with the addition of Miami (Fla.) and some ...
TRACY SMITH

We're hoping that this will help with communication with staff, students and very much so with the p...
TRACY SMITH

So the content will be more dynamic which will lead to more people using the site.
TRACY SMITH

We discovered that more than 90 percent of [the] students have Internet access, so we're trying to p...
TRACY SMITH

We have a young team.
TRACY SMITH

I want to be an example of a guy who made something of himself out of nothing. A guy who overcame th...
TRACY MORGAN

When you are older, you realize that no one was every thinking about you at all.
BRIAN TRACY

To be wealthy, you must develop a burning desire for wealth and financial independence.
BRIAN TRACY

I do believe that enduring geological features are important, though I don't think I can be clea...
TRACY KIDDER

It's muddled. To be as muddled as it is now is ... intriguing.
JIM TRACY

We want to offer our customers the convenience of coming into the store and shopping when their busy...
TRACY PAWELSKI

[This free yearly concert at Ford Pavilion in Beaumont, Texas, on Sunday, September 4, 2005 at 6PM, ...
TRACY BYRD

You don't get far with people by judging them, and one of the nice things of my profession is I don'...
TRACY KIDDER

I'm obsessed with my PlayStation. I'll come home and plug away at 'Fallout' for a co...
TRACY SPIRIDAKOS

So little is known about this illegal program that it's akin to legislating in the dark.
TRACY SCHMALER

When you have God-given talent, I think that that kind of hinders your practice habits and that'...
TRACY MCGRADY

If you like a person you say 'let's go into business together.' Man is a social animal a...
BRIAN TRACY

We're going to try to see what we can do to get opened next week sometime, that's the goal. Hopefull...
TRACY PEPPLE

He has not had a bad at-bat since he's been here, ... His stock has risen, from my standpoint.
JIM TRACY

I'm excited about everything. Yao ( Ming ), he's turned himself into a different player. I think he'...
TRACY MCGRADY

A spectacular game. I don't think you'd anticipate much less.
JIM TRACY

His (left) elbow is lower than it should be and he's not pitching like he's coming off a slope. At t...
JIM TRACY

He's got strong programs. He's got a lot of the basics and he could come through. The material and a...
TRACY WILSON

I'm not just a basketball player. I've got other talents.
TRACY MCGRADY

What goes on away from here, as far as basketball, I leave that there. I don't bring that here. If I...
TRACY MCGRADY

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social St...
TRACY KIDDER

Great execution. That's what you have to do when you're playing great teams.
TRACY MCGRADY

The glue that holds all relationships together - including the relationship between the leader and t...
BRIAN TRACY

Acting is not an important job in the scheme of things. Plumbing is.
SPENCER TRACY

I decided to do whatever I could to make sure the business side of music didn't intrude on the c...
TRACY CHAPMAN

What am I afraid of? The IRS. That's it. I don't want those people knockin' on my door, ...
TRACY MORGAN

Victor Santos pitched a terrific game. He pitched inside very effectively and it made his other pitc...
JIM TRACY

It's like the Gatorade commercial, where the guy (marathoner) fell out right before he got to the fi...
CHAD TRACY

I was like any other inner-city kid with a chip on his shoulder because his daddy and his mommy wasn...
TRACY MORGAN

Whatever you hold in your mind will tend to occur in your life. If you continue to believe as you ha...
BRIAN TRACY

The essence of a successful business is really quite simple. It is your ability to offer a product o...
BRIAN TRACY

The problem is not the problem; the problem is your attitude about the problem
BRIAN TRACY

They say that every Jewish person is supposed to love one black person in his life. I'm glad Lor...
TRACY MORGAN

Everyone wants to be an arena act, and it's making country music evolve. People are cutting thin...
TRACY LAWRENCE

So I think all comedians are earning their wings into heaven. We're all going to heaven, but eve...
TRACY MORGAN

I dressed up as a veterinarian for a Halloween costume party. I had the lab coat. I got a couple of ...
TRACY CHAPMAN

In a very basic way, a prominent landmark such as Mt. Holyoke tells you where you are. They let you ...
TRACY KIDDER

I remember a song I did called 'If the Good Die Young' - I wanted to have a lead guitar solo...
TRACY LAWRENCE

You're thoughtful, Barbara, but you're not open. You're passionate, but you're hard. You're a good, decent, funny, wonderful woman, and I love you, but you're a pain in the ass.

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You're thoughtful, Barbara, but you're not open. You're passionate, but you're hard. You're a good, decent, funny, wonderful woman, and I love you, but you're a pain in the ass.

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