diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index d4fa1e9..360d760 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -1,12 +1,8 @@
-# Python CircleCI 2.0 configuration file
-#
-# Check https://circleci.com/docs/2.0/language-python/ for more details
-#
 version: 2
 jobs:
   build:
     docker:
-      - image: circleci/python:latest
+      - image: circleci/python:3.8.6
 
     working_directory: ~/talkgenerator
 
@@ -26,7 +22,7 @@ jobs:
             python3 -m venv venv
             . venv/bin/activate
             pip install --upgrade pip setuptools
-            python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt --use-feature=2020-resolver
+            python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt
             python run_nltk_download.py
 
       - save_cache:
@@ -40,13 +36,10 @@ jobs:
           command: |
             python3 -m venv venv
             . venv/bin/activate
-            pip install --upgrade pip setuptools
-            pip install pytest
-            pip install pytest-cov
-            pip install codecov
+            pip install --upgrade pip setuptools pytest-cov codecov
             pytest --cov=talkgenerator tests/
             codecov --token=e25ce249-b3da-4d80-b8d3-074f7d288969
 
       - store_artifacts:
           path: test-reports
-          destination: test-reports
\ No newline at end of file
+          destination: test-reports
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 864ccd0..d8e3da3 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,50 +1,12 @@
-appdirs==1.4.4
-attrs==20.1.0
-beautifulsoup4==4.9.1
-black==21.7b0
-certifi==2020.6.20
-chardet==3.0.4
-charset-normalizer==2.0.4
-click==7.1.2
-codecov==2.1.9
-coverage==5.2.1
-environs==8.0.0
-idna==2.10
-importlib-metadata==1.7.0
-inflect==4.1.0
-iniconfig==1.0.1
-joblib==0.16.0
-lxml==4.6.3
-marshmallow==3.7.1
-more-itertools==8.5.0
-mypy-extensions==0.4.3
-nltk>=3.6.4
-packaging==20.4
-pathspec==0.9.0
-pathtools==0.1.2
-pexels-api==1.0.1
-Pillow==8.3.2
-pluggy==0.13.1
-portalocker==2.0.0
-praw==7.5.0
-py==1.10.0
-pyparsing==2.4.7
-pytest==6.0.1
-pytest-cov==2.10.1
-python-dotenv==0.14.0
-python-pptx==0.6.18
-pyunsplash==1.0.0b9
-regex
-requests==2.24.0
-six==1.15.0
-soupsieve==2.0.1
-toml==0.10.1
-tomli==1.2.1
-tqdm==4.48.2
-tracery==0.1.1
-update-checker==0.18.0
-urllib3==1.25.10
-watchdog==0.10.3
-websocket-client==0.57.0
-XlsxWriter==1.3.3
-zipp==3.1.0
+cachier
+python-pptx
+pexels_api
+environs
+requests
+bs4
+tracery
+inflect
+nltk
+pyunsplash
+praw
+pytest-cov
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 699e125..efe4f00 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -48,6 +48,5 @@
         ("text-templates", all_text_templates),
     ],
     include_package_data=True,
-    install_requires=required,
     entry_points={"console_scripts": ["talkgenerator = talkgenerator.run:main_cli"]},
 )