Jessica Hagedorn Quotes

• 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

  Pensar, Jugar, Gente

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• Adaptability is the simple secret of survival.

  Jessica Hagedorn

  Simple, Secret, Survival

  Jessica Hagedorn (2013). “Dogeaters: A Novel”, p.13, Open Road Media

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• Don't say Fili, sister. Say Pili. In Tagalog, pili means to choose. Pino means fine. Pilipino equals 'fine choice.

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  Mean, Choices, Fine

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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, Simple, People

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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.

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  Men, White Man, Challenges

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

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  Real, Eye, 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 the best.

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  Appreciate, Hybridity, World

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• Everything matters. Time is precious.

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  Matter, Time Is Precious

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• Ser madre me ha ayudado a ser una escritora más dura y más fuerte.

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  Mother, Stronger, Becoming

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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.

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  Writing, Contemporary Fiction, Voice

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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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  Thinking, Feelings, Enough

  Interview with Kay Bonetti, www.missourireview.com. March 1, 1995.

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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.

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  Children, Drama, Two

  Interview with Kay Bonetti, www.english.illinois.edu.

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• Mi identidad está ligada a mi abuela, que es filipina pura, todo lo pura que se puede ser. Y eso dio forma a mi imaginación. Así es como me identifico.

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  Grandmother, Imagination, Identity

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• [Sobre Filipinas:] ... se hablan ochenta dialectos y lenguas; somos una nación fragmentada de fieles creyentes, dividida por enemistades de sangre y controlada por la Iglesia.

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  Blood, Church, Loyal

  Jessica Hagedorn (2013). “Dogeaters: A Novel”, p.132, Open Road Media

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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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  Niños, Crecer, Hombres

  Interview with Kay Bonetti, www.missourireview.com. March 1, 1995.

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• Me encanta escribir diálogos, y creo que gran parte de mi escritura es visual y muy cinematográfica.

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  Writing, Thinking, Dialogue

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• Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.

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  Writing, Influential, Film

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• Todos los fabulosos e intrépidos escritores aquí reunidos, ya vivan en Manila, en Estados Unidos o en cualquier otro lugar de la siempre creciente diáspora filipina, sienten una profunda conexión y un amor perdurable por esta alocada y embriagadora ciudad. No hay nada igual en el mundo, y ellos lo saben.

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  Crazy, Cities, Fearless

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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!

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  Nyu, Transformation, Malls

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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

  Believe, Sound, Sampling

  "Cultivating The Art Of the Melange". Interview with Somini Sengupta, www.nytimes.com. December 4, 1996.

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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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  Want, Punk, Scene

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

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  Latin, Blood, Persons

  Interview with Kay Bonetti, www.missourireview.com. March 1, 1995.

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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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  Underdog, Polite, Valuable

  Interview with Kay Bonetti, www.english.illinois.edu.

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• También había programas de terror en la radio. De niño me resultaban muy aterradores y emocionantes. Tenían unos efectos de sonido espeluznantes. Los ponían a las diez de la noche y yo me moría de miedo.

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  Kids, Night, Scary

  Interview with Kay Bonetti, www.english.illinois.edu.

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• I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City.

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  New York, Airports, Cities

  Interview with Kay Bonetti, www.missourireview.com. March 1, 1995.

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