Top 24 Jessica Hagedorn Quotes
#1. I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic.
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#3. There are certain regions in the country where the indigenous people eat dogs.
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#4. I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.
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#5. I think for a lot of so-called post-colonial peoples, there's a feeling of not being quite legitimate, of not being pure enough.
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#6. Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer.
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#8. My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's how I identify.
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#9. 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 o'clock at night, and I just would scare myself to death.
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#10. [On The Philippines:] ... eighty dialects and languages are spoken; we are a fragmented nation of loyal believers, divided by blood feuds and controlled by the Church.
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#11. All the fabulous and fearless writers gathered here, whether they are living in Manila, the US, or elsewhere in the ever-growing Philippine diaspora, have a deep connection and abiding love for this crazy-making, intoxicating city. There's nothing like it in the world, and they know it,
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#13. I don't believe in sampling some Tibetan music just to make it sound groovy, but you do your homework, you understand what you're doing with it.
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#14. Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains.
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#15. 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.
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#16. The punk scene in NY was so gritty and nihilistic & I was like ooh I want to do that
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#17. We didn't 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.
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#18. I also identify as a Latin person, a person who has Latin blood.
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#19. I don't 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.
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#20. Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child.
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#21. It's not just NYU. There are days when I feel like I'm stranded in some upscale mall in Pasadena. Don't even get me started on the insidious transformation of Bleecker Street!
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#22. Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.
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#23. I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City.
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#24. But I think there's a genuine joy, too, a sense that no matter what, even if my stomach's growling, I'm going to dance. That's what I want to leave people with at the end of the play. After all this, people still know how to live.
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