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Beth Henley

"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."

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"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."

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Donna Grant

"I did a book signing when we were in New York the day before yesterday. A lady came through and she was just weeping, and said, 'I wish this would have been brought out sooner, my sister is in prison for suffocating her child.'"

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Donna Grant

"I thought some of Mrs. White's material was prophetic. I felt some of her insights were extremely helpful and I regarded her as a sister in the Lord. I wasn't out to attack Ellen White's character."

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Donna Grant

"I haven't heard anything about a reunion show for Sisters. But if the script was good I would do it."

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Donna Grant

"And now, dear sister, I must leave this house or the retreating army will make me a prisoner in it by filling up the road I am directed to take."

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Donna Grant

"My major influence was my ten years older sister."

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Donna Grant

"Whoopi and I have been friends ever since she claimed she couldn't sing on the set of Sister Act."

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Donna Grant

"I was taking a nose dive somewhere between eleven and twelve because my sister had died and I was practicing something that siblings do which is follow in their footsteps and die as well."

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Donna Grant

"He may have hair upon his chest but, sister, so has Lassie."

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Donna Grant

"My sister and I were born in San Francisco. When our parents died, we came down here to live with relatives."

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Donna Grant

"Badges mean nothing in themselves, but they mark a certain achievement and they are a link between the rich and the poor. For when one girl sees a badge on a sister Scout's arm, if that girl has won the same badge, it at once awakens an interest and sympathy between them."

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Beth Henley
"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."

Food

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Beth Henley
"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."

Play

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Beth Henley
"I love writing for the screen."

Love

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

Acting

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

Money

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Beth Henley
"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

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Beth Henley
"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

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Beth Henley
"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."

Art

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Beth Henley
"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."

People

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Beth Henley
"My fault now is making my plays too short."

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