Jessica Hagedorn Quotes

Filipino - Writer | 1949 -

There is real beauty in my eyes when I lose my mind.

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BeautyEyesMindLoseReal

Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains.

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LifeSimplePeopleHeroesBeing

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.

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FatherMotherAmericanYouWhite

I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic.

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LoveWritingThinkDialogueVisual

There are certain regions in the country where the indigenous people eat dogs.

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PeopleCountryDogsEatIndigenous

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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MyselfSocietyUnderdogPersonSeem

Everything matters. Time is precious.

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TimeMattersEverythingPrecious

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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MyselfImaginationChildYouDrama

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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Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer.

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MotherMeStrongerBecomingWriter

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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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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LifeBestMeWorldAppreciateBeing

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