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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

Topics: Alignment Class Floor Get Had Lie Movement Pass You Your

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I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.

~Beth Henley

Topics: Being Divorced Just Loved My Own Own

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Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class.

~Beth Henley

Topics: Acting Acting Class Class High High School Kind Me Put School Senior She Then

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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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Topics: About Acting Acting Class All Day Class Day Dreamed Figure Got Long Loved Out Person Sad Think Wanted Were Why You

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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

Topics: Copyright Here Maintain Novelist Playwright Poet Screenwriter Sell Thing You Your

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

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Topics: Couple Did Original Plays Rather Screenplays Write

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I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.

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Topics: Community Grew Jackson Mississippi Mother Plays Really Theatre Up

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I love writing for the screen.

~Beth Henley

Topics: Love Screen Writing I Love

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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

Topics: Failed La Meant Money Raise Start Theatre Tried I Tried

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I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.

~Beth Henley

Topics: Angeles Being Just Los Los Angeles Out Restless School

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Playwright

Born: August 8th, 1952

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