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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

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
I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I’d rather write plays.
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Couple Play Writing
It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.
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Enlightening Kind Playwright
I love writing for the screen.
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Love Screens Writing
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.
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Character Emotional Interesting
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
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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College Dog School
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 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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Mother Phones Talking
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
I’m very into the first production of the show.
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Firsts Production Show
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
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
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

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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