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I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money.

Beth Henley

I’m very into the first production of the show.
BETH HENLEY

Firsts Production Show
What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn’t you, and figure out why they were sad and what they wanted, what they dreamed.
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Class Long Thinking
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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Country Live Work
I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.
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Divorced Own Wretchedness
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
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
It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.
BETH HENLEY

Enlightening Kind Playwright
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
I love writing for the screen.
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Love Screens Writing
It’s called Sisters of the Winter Madrigal. It was interesting for me to see it done after so many years; because I wrote it and I didn’t realize what a rage I was in.
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Sister Winter Years
I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.
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Country Restless School
I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I’d rather write plays.
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Couple Play Writing
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?
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Destiny Giving Smoking
I love to work, although sometimes I can spend whole days doing nothing more than picking the lint off the carpet and talking to my mother on the phone.
BETH HENLEY

Mother Phones Talking
There are probably brilliant people, geniuses, alive today who don’t even know how to say, “Hello, how do you do?” because their minds are absorbed with electronic images.
BETH HENLEY

Live Mind People Today

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