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Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department.
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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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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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I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.
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I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays.
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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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I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.
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But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright.
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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.
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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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