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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. Beth Henley
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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. Beth Henley
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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. Beth Henley
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Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department. Beth Henley
Theatre Wonderful Had Methodist Off Southern Department Then Really Dallas University
You can't just go in there and open your mouth until the cast and director feel comfortable with you. Beth Henley
You Director Mouth Cast Open Feel Until Comfortable Go Just Your
My dream was always to have an experience where an audience member would turn to another audience member, a stranger, and be like, 'What did we just go through?' And, like, kind of begin to talk. Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
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I have this thing called hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies. It's incredibly rare. Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Pressure Rare Incredibly Thing Hereditary Liability
I was 23 when I wrote 'Neighbors,' and I definitely look back at it now and cringe a little bit. I was trying to understand what drama was. Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Drama Back Bit Cringe Definitely Neighbors Look Wrote Understand Trying Little Little Bit Now
The first theater subscription I ever bought was the August Wilson season at Signature. I remember thinking a whole season to one playwright was a great way for a master to do a victory lap. Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
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I tried writing a novel, but plays were the thing that kept feeding me, asking me to come back, sit down and be with them. Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Me Writing Sit Down Back Tried Feeding Come Were Them Asking Novel Thing Kept Plays
I don't hate people who colour-blind cast, but I hate people who colour-blind cast and pretend that they're not, who pretend that these bodies on stage don't actually carry specific meaning. Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Hate People Stage Carry Pretend Cast Meaning Bodies Who Specific Actually
I wrestle in a big way with August Wilson's work in that I at times admire it and at times feel infuriated by it, which is weirdly more influential than loving someone entirely. Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Work Big Way Wilson Admire Someone Wrestle Entirely More Feel Weirdly August Times Than Big Way Influential Which Loving
I'm not a really firm believer in theatre that is 'about anything.' I don't think theatre can be about anything other than the people who show up and the value that they hold. Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Theatre People Value Think Other About Firm Firm Believer Up Than Hold Anything Really Show Who Believer
I actually don't read the press. All the writers I admire were significantly reclusive, and I'm still trying to figure out how they got to a place where they didn't have to talk to press. Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Press Reclusive Out Admire Writers Talk Read Got How Still Were Trying Where Place Figure Actually
The stuff I write about doesn't, like, necessarily leave people feeling warm and fuzzy. I'm writing in a territory that's, like, contested and full of prickliness. And I find that people project their problems onto me or something. Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Me People Writing Problems Feeling Project Fuzzy Find About Something Onto Write Stuff Like Territory Contested Leave Warm Full Necessarily
I love television, and my love for it has made me curious about writing it. It feels like television's moving toward something more novelistic, and that's what I started wanting to do. But I can't say that I'm dying to get notes from a studio. The artistic control that you get as a playwright is worth its weight in gold. Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Love Me You Writing Worth Made Control Playwright Say Television About Something More Weight Studio Toward Feels Like Curious Get Artistic Gold Wanting Dying Moving Notes Started
My mother had a wall of degrees in our house, and she would walk me up to the wall and say, 'When you have this many degrees, you can tell me what to do.' Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Me You Mother Walk Our Say Tell Would Degrees Had House She Up Wall Many
I have a borderline-embarrassing obsession with pop music. Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Music Obsession Pop Pop Music
Somehow, whenever we think about race or blackness in relationship to art, we always come in kind of nervous. We always think someone's about to be punished or accused of something. Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Art Relationship Nervous Think Punished Kind About Somehow Blackness Someone Something Come Always Accused Whenever Race
Something that happens to me is that I'll write a play specifically from my own experience, and then I'll inevitably be told that I'm being tunnel-visioned about it. People always ask, 'What about that other race? Or discrimination toward those people?' Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Me Experience People Own Other Those About Something My Own Write Toward Always Inevitably Discrimination Being Happens Race Ask Then Play Specifically
How do we refresh our language? Why do we still use, like, a 150-year-old classification system to talk about people? It's so weird! We still call people black and white? Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
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The blush is beautiful, but it is sometimes convenient. Carlo Goldoni
Beautiful Sometimes Convenient Blush
Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great. Carlo Goldoni
Great Accident Characterize Noble Fortune Bold Actions
He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons. Carlo Goldoni
Half Only He Sons Himself Leaves His Dies Who Image
A wise traveler never depreciates their own country. Carlo Goldoni
Wise Country Own Never Traveler
Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture, health care, and life sciences is directly related to scientific advancement. Christopher Bond
Life Future Health Technology Agriculture Care Will Job Every Defense Related Our Sector Directly Economic Economic Growth Advancement Advances Economy Reach Industry Health Care Sciences Scientific Continue Far Transportation Growth
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