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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."

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"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."

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Donna Grant

"The Sims is kind of an interesting case because we had all these expansion packs. We were able to incrementally add on and explore without invading the core dynamic or the core game play."

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Donna Grant

"What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion."

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Donna Grant

"We really never know what we're gonna play when we get on stage."

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Donna Grant

"We just finished making a record. Everybody wants to play shows, so we're going to after that."

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Donna Grant

"I was jumping out of my skin. It was horrible. I was all over the place, because I'd never been in front of a live audience. That's a whole other element in the play, the audience."

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Donna Grant

"All I ever wanted to do was play the drums; I felt good about myself when I played the drums. So I worked anywhere and everywhere I could lug my drums in."

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Donna Grant

"The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast."

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Donna Grant

"I know some things when I start. I know, let's say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a 1930s play, and it's going to be about a piano, but that's it. I slowly discover who the characters are as I go along."

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Donna Grant

"I held out a lead figurine of Hades-the little Mythomagic statue Nico had abandoned when he fled camp last winter.Nico hesitated. "I don't play that game anymore. It's for kids.""It's got four thousand attack power," I coaxed."Five thousand," Nico corrected. "But only if your opponent attacks first."I smiled. "Maybe it's okay to still be a kid once in a while."

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Donna Grant

"Yeah, I've always been accused of having a sense of mischief and I'm very flattered that you say you can see it in the roles I play, because I think that's important, even if I do play intense characters, like especially Christine Cagney."

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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
"I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness."

Being

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Beth Henley
"Some really good things kind of swing both ways and I like to see people that can swing really, really, really sad and horrible and terrible and really, really, really beautiful and funny."

Funny

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Beth Henley
"In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class."

Lie

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

Mother

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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."

Sister

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Beth Henley
"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."

Work

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Beth Henley
"You can't just go in there and open your mouth until the cast and director feel comfortable with you."

Open

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Beth Henley
"My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisiana."

First

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

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