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Jessica Hagedorn Quotes
And Ive lived now in North America close to thirty years. In terms of my politics, I feel a political alliance too, with the Asian community here. - Jessica Hagedorn Quotes
Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer. - Jessica Hagedorn Quotes
But I think theres a genuine joy, too, a sense that no matter what, even if my stomachs growling, Im going to dance. Thats what I want to leave people with at the end of the play. After all this, people still know how to live. - Jessica Hagedorn Quotes
Everything matters. Time is precious. - Jessica Hagedorn Quotes
Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child. Its now gotten very limited. They only make action movies and hard-core exploitation movies. Women get raped; men get shot. - Jessica Hagedorn Quotes
Hybridity keeps me from being rigid about most things. It has taught me to appreciate the contradictions in the world and in my life. I scavenge from the best. - Jessica Hagedorn Quotes
I also identify as a Latin person, a person who has Latin blood. - Jessica Hagedorn Quotes
I dont believe in sampling some Tibetan music just to make it sound groovy, but you do your homework, you understand what youre doing with it. - Jessica Hagedorn Quotes
I dont know what issues concerning identity have helped contemporary fiction evolve to what it is now. All I know is that the range of voices that are being heard and published is a lot more diverse than when I was coming up. - Jessica Hagedorn Quotes
I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic. - Jessica Hagedorn Quotes
I think for a lot of so-called post-colonial peoples, theres a feeling of not being quite legitimate, of not being pure enough. - Jessica Hagedorn Quotes
Im an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society. - Jessica Hagedorn Quotes
Im preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, thats coming up in New York City. - Jessica Hagedorn Quotes
Life is not simple, and people cant be boxed into being either heroes or villains. - Jessica Hagedorn Quotes
Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film. - Jessica Hagedorn Quotes
My identity is linked to my grandmother, whos pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So thats how I identify. - Jessica Hagedorn Quotes
There are certain regions in the country where the indigenous people eat dogs. - Jessica Hagedorn Quotes
There were also horror shows on the radio. Very terrifying and thrilling to me as a kid. They had all these creepy sound effects. They would come on at ten oclock at night, and I just would scare myself to death. - Jessica Hagedorn Quotes
We didnt have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child. - Jessica Hagedorn Quotes
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