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"My fault now is making my plays too short."
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"I can appreciate that on one side, but we have to remember that the system is designed corruptly, and works against us, so you cant convict those who can benefit from the system, because its not neccesarily their fault."

"I'm frustrated by something, it's my fault for exposing myself to it in the first place. The rumor mill always seemed like a grass fire to me. Why walk out in the middle of the field, it's just going to flame out and go away just like everything else does?"

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

"I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do."

"If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that."

"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."
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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."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."
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