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

Beth Henley

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

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

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In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class.
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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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Inclination
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
And all writing is creating or spinning dreams for other people so they won’t have to bother doing it themselves.

BETH HENLEY

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
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.

BETH HENLEY

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.
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.

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 just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.
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Divorced Own Wretchedness
I’m very into the first production of the show.

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

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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Today
I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.
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Community Theatre
I love writing for the screen.
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Screens
I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money.

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

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

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