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1. "I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays." ~ Beth Henley
2. "I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays." ~ Beth Henley
3. "I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness." ~ Beth Henley
4. "I love writing for the screen." ~ Beth Henley
5. "I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money." ~ Beth Henley
6. "I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles." ~ Beth Henley
7. "I'm very into the first production of the show." ~ Beth Henley
8. "In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class." ~ Beth Henley
9. "It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright." ~ Beth Henley
10. "My fault now is making my plays too short." ~ Beth Henley
11. "My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisiana." ~ Beth Henley
12. "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
13. "Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department." ~ Beth Henley
14. "Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class." ~ Beth Henley
15. "You can't just go in there and open your mouth until the cast and director feel comfortable with you." ~ Beth Henley
16. "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
17. "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
18. "Plays are so much more special if they've never ever had a production, but I think you can really work on a play and make it better with each production." ~ Beth Henley
19. "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
20. "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
21. "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." ~ Beth Henley
22. "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
23. "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

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Last winter I tried to talk Jesse into leaving. Not anymore. I've grown to cherish the freedom, the openness of this land, the wall I plastered, the trees I planted. I can see God using me. Homesteading, building a community with people I care about..."
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