Explore the most impactful and insightful quotes and sayings by Jessica Hagedorn, and enrich your perspective with the wisdom. Share these inspiring Jessica Hagedorn quotes pictures with your friends on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, completely free. Here are the top 24 Jessica Hagedorn quotes for you to read and share.
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
Adaptability is the simple secret of survival. -- Jessica Hagedorn
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
[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. -- Jessica Hagedorn
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
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
There are certain regions in the country where the indigenous people eat dogs. -- Jessica Hagedorn
I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City. -- Jessica Hagedorn
Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer. -- Jessica Hagedorn
I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society. -- Jessica Hagedorn
Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film. -- Jessica Hagedorn
The punk scene in NY was so gritty and nihilistic & I was like ooh I want to do that -- Jessica Hagedorn
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
I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic. -- Jessica Hagedorn
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
I also identify as a Latin person, a person who has Latin blood. -- Jessica Hagedorn
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
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
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
Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains. -- Jessica Hagedorn
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
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
There is real beauty in my eyes when I lose my mind. -- Jessica Hagedorn
Everything matters. Time is precious. -- Jessica Hagedorn