I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.

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I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.

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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.

BETH HENLEY

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
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.
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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

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

BETH HENLEY

I’m very into the first production of the show.
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Firsts Production
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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Smoking
In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class.

BETH HENLEY

In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class.
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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.

BETH HENLEY

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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Long
But here’s the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright.
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Copyright Novelists Poets
I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.
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Community Theatre
I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I’d rather write plays.
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It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.
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Enlightening Playwright
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.
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Phones Talking
It’s really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don’t get in trouble.

BETH HENLEY

It’s really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don’t get in trouble.
BETH HENLEY
I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.

BETH HENLEY

I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.
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Restless
I love writing for the screen.
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Screens
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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