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Part of that is that New York has proved to be too much fun for me to live and work; I love New York so much.

Beth Henley

Somehow I got to be one of five or six actors that the directors would use as guinea pigs at this directing colloquium, where people pay to listen to and watch the directors direct.
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Director People Pigs
I love writing for the screen.
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Love Screens Writing
And all writing is creating or spinning dreams for other people so they won’t have to bother doing it themselves.
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Creating Dream Writing
My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisiana.
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Louisiana Lucky Play
The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.
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Christmas School Writing
I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I’d rather write plays.
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Couple Play Writing
I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.
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Country Restless School
I’m very into the first production of the show.
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Firsts Production Show
I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.
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Divorced Own Wretchedness
I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money.
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Money Raise Theatre
Plays are so much more special if they’ve never ever had a production, but I think you can really work on a play and make it better with each production.
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Play Special Thinking
I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.
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Community Mother Play Theatre
In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class.
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Class Lying Movement
That was always my inclination, to start on a new play before the other one gets done, because at least you’ll have something to go back to if that play gets trashed.
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Done Inclination Play
The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress.
BETH HENLEY

College Dog School
That’s what I like about [smoking] . . . taking a drag off of death, Mmm! Gives me a sense of controlling my own destiny. What power! What exhilaration! Want a drag?
BETH HENLEY

Destiny Giving Smoking

Part of that is that New York has proved to be too much fun for me to live and work; I love New York so much.

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Part of that is that New York has proved to be too much fun for me to live and work; I love New York so much.

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