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Beth Henley

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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
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#Christmas
#Night
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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. - Beth Henley
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It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright. - Beth Henley
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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
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#Floor
#Lie
#Movement
#Your
I'm very into the first production of the show. - Beth Henley
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#Show
#Very
I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles. - Beth Henley
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I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays. - Beth Henley
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#Mother
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#Theatre
#Up
I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays. - Beth Henley
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#Original
#Plays
#Rather
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My fault now is making my plays too short. - Beth Henley
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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. - Beth Henley
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#Use
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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. - Beth Henley
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I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness. - Beth Henley
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#My Own
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I love writing for the screen. - Beth Henley
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#Writing
Some really good things kind of swing both ways and I like to see people that can swing really, really, really sad and horrible and terrible and really, really, really beautiful and funny. - Beth Henley
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#Funny
#Good Things
#Good
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I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money. - Beth Henley
#Money
#Raise
#Start
#Theatre
#Tried
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
#Acting
#Day
#Long
#Person
#Sad
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. - Beth Henley
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