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"I'm very into the first production of the show."
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"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."

"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."

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"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."

"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 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."

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

"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."
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