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"My fault now is making my plays too short."
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"If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody."

"A cake is a very good test of an oven: if it browns too much on one side and not on the other, it's not your fault - you need to have your oven checked."

"Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours."

"I'm empathetic to a fault. I really do - embarrassingly enough - tear up when someone squishes a bug in front of me."
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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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department."
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