Top 31 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. If you put enough closets together, you have enough space for a room. If you put enough rooms together, you have enough room for a house. If you put enough houses together, you have space for a town, then a city, then a nation, then a world.
David Levithan
#5. 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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#6. 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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#7. Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer.
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#8. Ignore the negativity in your life. Right now I'm taking bullets for other people and sometimes in life that's where courage comes from.
Cady Groves
#10. Xcor's own hand trembled as he reached forth. Grasping Wrath's palm, he kissed the ring and then placed it upon his bowed forehead. "Fore'ermore, I pledge my allegiance unto to you and yours, serving none other." Both
J.R. Ward
#11. 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
#12. Yet the march toward freedom is not without its hazards or its casualties and the threats of violence aimed at Iraqis who participate in the election will be dealt with accordingly.
Jim Gerlach
#13. 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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#14. [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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#15. 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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#17. When I was young, I believed in three things: Marxism, the redemptive power of cinema, and dynamite. Now I just believe in dynamite.
Sergio Leone
#18. 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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#19. Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains.
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#20. 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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#21. The punk scene in NY was so gritty and nihilistic & I was like ooh I want to do that
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#22. 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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#23. I also identify as a Latin person, a person who has Latin blood.
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#25. 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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#26. 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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#27. 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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#28. Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.
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#29. I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City.
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#30. 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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#31. Increasingly, Sawtooth's own memories are a loud bright muddle, like opening the door on a party full of strangers. He lies awake at night, limping down the long corridors of his memory, trying to find the girl's hands, ...
Karen Russell
