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

Beth Henley

The most glorious thing about working in the collaborative art is when you have somebody like Susan Kingsley or Kathy Bates who are better than your play.
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Art Glorious Play
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
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
I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.
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Divorced Own Wretchedness
But when I got to SMU and decided to take a playwriting class, I said this isn’t a bad idea. IfI write characters, they could be as dumb as me, and I don’t have to be very smart.
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Character Smart 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
I love writing for the screen.
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Love Screens Writing
I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I’d rather write plays.
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Couple Play 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
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 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
I’m very into the first production of the show.
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Firsts Production Show
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.
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Live Mind People Today
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 was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.
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Country Restless School
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

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