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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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"My mother insisted that I have a normal upbringing."
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"Madlen came to sit beside her on the bed. "Lady Queen," she said with her own particular brand of rough gentleness. "It is not the job of the child to protect her mother. It's the mother's job to protect the child. By allowing your mother to protect you, you gave her a gift. Do you understand me?"
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"She was a genius, my mother."
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"I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers."
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"My mother had lots and lots of children who didn't survive."
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"I remember all too well the premiere of Ecstasy when I watched my bare bottom bounce across the screen and my mother and father sat there in shock."
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"My mother taught me to read."
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"When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else."
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"My mother buried three husbands - and two of them were only napping."
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"My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised."
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"I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles."
Being
"Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class."
Acting
"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."
Christmas
"I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays."
Mother
"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."
Love
"I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness."
Being
"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."
Acting
"Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department."
Theatre
"I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money."
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"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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