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I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I’d rather write plays.

Beth Henley

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
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
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
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
I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I’d rather write plays.
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Couple Play Writing
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
I love writing for the screen.
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Love Screens Writing
I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.
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Country Restless School
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
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 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 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 just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.
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Divorced Own Wretchedness
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
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

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