Quotes by Jessica Hagedorn - Page 1

Everything matters. Time is precious.
Jessica Hagedorn / Playwright
Matter
Time Is Precious
Matters
Precious
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Adaptability is the simple secret of survival.
Jessica Hagedorn / Playwright
Secret
Simple
Survival
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There is real beauty in my eyes when I lose my mind.
Jessica Hagedorn / Playwright
Eye
Mind
Real
Real Beauty
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Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer.
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Becoming
Mother
Stronger
Helped
Tougher
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I also identify as a Latin person, a person who has Latin blood.
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Blood
Latin
Persons
Identify
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Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.
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Film
Influential
Theater
Writing
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There are certain regions in the country where the indigenous people eat dogs.
Jessica Hagedorn / Playwright
Country
Dog
Indigenous
Indigenous People
People
Regions
Dogs
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Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains.
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Hero
People
Simple
Heroes
Life Simple People
Being
Boxed
Either
Villains
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The punk scene in NY was so gritty and nihilistic & I was like ooh I want to do that
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Punk
Scene
Want
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I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic.
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Cinematic
Dialogue
Thinking
Writing
Visual
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I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City.
Jessica Hagedorn / Playwright
New York
Airports
Cities
Multimedia
New York City
Preparing
Theater
Airport
Music City New
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I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.
Jessica Hagedorn / Playwright
Polite
Underdog
Valuable
Align
Considered
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Don't say Fili, sister. Say Pili. In Tagalog, pili means to choose. Pino means fine. Pilipino equals 'fine choice.
Jessica Hagedorn / Playwright
Choices
Fine
Mean
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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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Film Industry
Healthy
Philippines
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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 / Playwright
Enough
Feelings
Pure
Thinking
So-Called
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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 / Playwright
Believe
Groovy
Homework
Sampling
Sound
Tibetan
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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 / Playwright
Imagination
Filipino
Grandmother
Identity
Linked
Pure
Identify
Shaped
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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 / Playwright
Appreciate
Hybridity
World
Life Best World
Contradictions
Rigid
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[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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Blood
Church
Loyal
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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 / Playwright
Malls
Nyu
Transformation
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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 / Playwright
Kids
Creepy
Effects
Night
Radio
Scare
Scary
Ten
Thrilling
Death Myself Me
Terrifying
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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 / Playwright
Contemporary
Contemporary Fiction
Diverse
Evolve
Identity
Range
Voice
Writing
Concerning
Helped
Published
Voices
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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 / Playwright
Genuine
People
Play
Stomach
Thinking
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Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child. It's now gotten very limited. They only make action movies and hard-core exploitation movies. Women get raped; men get shot.
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Men
Children
Growing Up
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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 / Playwright
Children
Drama
Eight
Radio
Two
Immersed
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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 / Playwright
Cities
Crazy
Fearless
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I have been definitely influenced more by Latin American writers than by any other type of writer. They are very close in terms of voice - their humor, their fatalism, their... well, that over-used term 'magical realism.' It's a wonderful term that's just been used so much, we don't know what it means anymore.
Jessica Hagedorn / Playwright
Fatalism
Latin
Latin American
Realism
Term
American Writers
Influenced
Magical
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I'm part Spanish. My paternal grandfather came from Spain via Singapore to Manila. On my mother's side it's more mixture, with a Filipino mother and a father who was Scotch Irish-French; you know, white American hybrid. And I also have on my father's side a great-great-grandmother who was Chinese. So, I'm a hybrid.
Jessica Hagedorn / Playwright
Chinese
Filipino
Grandfather
Hybrid
Manila
Scotch
Singapore
Spain
Mixture
Paternal
Via
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Writers and scholars have emerged in recent times (some familiar, some new) to continue to challenge the notion of a literature that encompasses the world - and reaffirms our existence in it. It is a multicultural vision that embraces and includes our shrinking universe; it is a multicultural vision that the white man fears and a vision that the rest of us can celebrate.
Jessica Hagedorn / Playwright
Men
Challenges
White Man
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