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Jessica Hagedorn
Jessica Hagedorn
Filipino Writer
Born: 1949
Being Me Music Myself People You
Related authors: Ayn Rand Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Niccolo Machiavelli Thomas Mann Thomas Paine Voltaire
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
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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
Range Evolve Diverse More Voices Know Contemporary Identity Concerning Coming Issues Heard Lot Up Than Being Fiction Helped Now Published
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
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Everything matters. Time is precious. Jessica Hagedorn
Time Matters Everything Precious
I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic. Jessica Hagedorn
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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
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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
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I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City. Jessica Hagedorn
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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
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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
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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. Jessica Hagedorn
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