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"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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"In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter."
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"I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir."
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"The first and most fundamental issue of sin is pride."
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"I was very fortunate to hook up with Jerry in the first place. The network was already committed to doing something with him, so I skipped a couple of hundred steps right there."
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"I'm a songwriter first."
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"The first cut is the deepest."
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"I made my first complete song when I was 9."
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"I met Elvis first in Las Vegas. I think I was appearing with Tom Jones and he came backstage to say hello to Tom or we went to his dressing room to say hello."
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"First and foremost, I consider myself a songwriter."
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"When Seymour saw me seated at the piano at that first rehearsal, he shouted: 'What's that kid doing here? Call your piano player and let's get started.'"
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"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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"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
"I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays."
Mother
"I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness."
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"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
"I love writing for the screen."
Love
"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
"Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department."
Theatre
"I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles."
Being
"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."
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