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

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

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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."

"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."

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

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