Top 34 Hagedorn Quotes
#1. Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child.
Jessica Hagedorn
#2. Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains.
Jessica Hagedorn
#3. 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
#4. The punk scene in NY was so gritty and nihilistic & I was like ooh I want to do that
Jessica Hagedorn
#5. 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.
Jessica Hagedorn
#6. I also identify as a Latin person, a person who has Latin blood.
Jessica Hagedorn
#8. 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.
Jessica Hagedorn
#9. The common moral framework: Do anything as long as it does no harm to others. Problem: Whose definition of harm?
Timothy Keller
#10. 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.
Jessica Hagedorn
#11. Detroit is an urban hell. But even in this city of the dying auto industry, there is reason to hope, if they manage to combine the creative forces of designers and other intellectual "suppliers" in other ways.
Charles Landry
#12. 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!
Jessica Hagedorn
#13. Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.
Jessica Hagedorn
#15. I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City.
Jessica Hagedorn
#16. 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.
Jessica Hagedorn
#17. Hell isn't having no choice.
It's having to make a choice between horrific things.
Don Winslow
#18. I moved to New York between my junior and senior years of high school to just see what it was like, to go to a modeling agency and see how to get representation.
Teri Polo
#20. There are certain regions in the country where the indigenous people eat dogs.
Jessica Hagedorn
#21. I love doing what I do. I love asking questions. I love being in the mix.
Larry King
#22. I believe that we can heal Rwanda - and our world - by healing one heart at a time.
Immaculee Ilibagiza
#23. I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.
Jessica Hagedorn
#24. 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.
Jessica Hagedorn
#25. Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer.
Jessica Hagedorn
#27. I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic.
Jessica Hagedorn
#28. I can't help but think that, comic book-wise, this whole episode would probably fill nothing but a couple interlude frames; like that moment where a character has a sepia-tinted dream before crashing back into their real story.
Melissa Keil
#29. 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.
Jessica Hagedorn
#30. 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.
Jessica Hagedorn
#31. [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.
Jessica Hagedorn
#32. 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,
Jessica Hagedorn
#34. I was very ill at ease with people in social situations, and I realized that if I photographed I wouldn't have to chat.
Martine Franck
