Don Letts Quotes

#1. If work is to make a life the purpose of the organization might need to shift to include a greater degree of meaning.

Dan Pontefract

#2. I don't believe moviegoers don't have patience. Screenwriters are told a scene can't be longer than three minutes, that you have to cut to the chase. Not true!

Tracy Letts

#3. You ever think about this? Every year you live, you pass the anniversary of your death. Now you don't know what day it is, of course.

Billie Letts

#4. Listen to me: die after me, all right? I don't care what else you do, where you go, how you screw up your life, just ... survive. Outlive me, please.

Tracy Letts

#5. I don't know what it says about me that I have a greater affinity with the damaged. Probably nothing good.

Tracy Letts

#6. Basically the subcultures formed in the U.K. because the mainstream was not satisfying the needs of certain people like myself. So through music and through style, we found our tribe, we found like-minded rebels.

Don Letts

#7. If you have a profession that depends on what you look like, you can't blame somebody for caring about that. It's part of their job. So it's vanity but it's also not in a lot of cases. It's being professional.

James Franco

#8. IVY: Mom believes women don't grow more attractive with age. KAREN: Oh, I disagree, I - VIOLET: I didn't say they "don't grow more attractive," I said they get ugly. And it's not really a matter of opinion, Karen dear. You've only just started to prove it yourself.

Tracy Letts

#9. I do think the internet has killed the mystery of the planet. It's removed the pain, the passion, and the struggle - I firmly believe they're all part of creativity.

Don Letts

#10. Every situation I have ever been in I have been trained for, and I dealt with it to the best of my abilities.

Marcus Luttrell

#11. Leo fell in love with every girl he saw-as long as she was completely out of his league.

Rick Riordan

#12. A hanged sparrow! Who would ever think of hanging a sparrow? It's like flavoring borscht with two mushrooms instead of just one - it's too much!

Witold Gombrowicz

#13. A man can't love you because you haven't read as many books as he has? He can't love you because you don't speak French or because you don't go to operas? You're telling me we have to fall in love with people who are just like us?

Billie Letts

#14. The whole journey of style-driven subcultural movements is finished now in the UK. The internet kind of killed it.

Don Letts

#15. To change the leanings of the heart, wear a wasp nest on the head (Not this desperate. Yet.)

Jandy Nelson

#16. MATTIE FAE: I'm still very sexy, thank you very much. VIOLET: You're about as sexy as a wet cardboard box, Mattie Fae, you and me both. Don't kid yourself.

Tracy Letts

#17. One observer estimated that in 1901 Texas alone had eight hundred million prairie dogs.4 Jack rabbits were nearly as numerous. Antelope and deer numbered in the millions, as did the wolves and coyotes, and there were thousands of elk, bear, and other game.

Stephen E. Ambrose

#18. My dad actually taught me to box when I was, like, nine years old, because I got picked on at school all of the time. I was on a boys' hockey team, so I would get all of my aggression out there.

Eliza Coupe

#19. I'm fifty-six years old - I'm as old as rock 'n roll.

Don Letts

#20. You don't work as hard to watch a movie. You work harder to watch a play, so what the audience puts into it is interesting.

Tracy Letts

#21. All women need makeup. Don't let anybody tell you different. The only woman who was pretty enough to go without makeup was Elizabeth Taylor and she wore a ton.

Tracy Letts

#22. I don't have a great face for camera.

Tracy Letts

#23. A normal person is just someone you don't know real well.

Tracey Letts

#24. Why, it would be such fun,' he chuckled, 'to just forget all about the hours when the sun didn't shine, and remember only the nice, pleasant ones.

Eleanor H. Porter

#25. I don't write plays for them to be turned into movies.

Tracy Letts

#26. Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.

Gene Fowler

#27. Let's meet as little as we can

William Shakespeare

#28. In England, where I come from, fashion and music go hand in hand. They're integral to each other.

Don Letts

#29. America is an unlikely place - a country built on defiance of the odds; on a belief in the impossible. And I remind you of this because as you set out to live your own stories of success and achievement, it's now your turn to help keep it this way.

Barack Obama