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21 quotes by Jessica Hagedorn

Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn Hagedorn at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2008 Born 1949 (1949) Manila, Philippines Occupation playwright, writer, poet, multimedia performance artist Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn (born 1949) is an American playwright, writer, poet, and multimedia performance artist.
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Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains.

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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... →

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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... →

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

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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... →

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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... →

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Everything matters. Time is precious.

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I also identify as a Latin person, a person who has Latin blood.

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

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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.

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

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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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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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