Jessica Hagedorn

(4 votes)   Everything matters. Time is precious.

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(4 votes)   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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(4 votes)   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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(4 votes)   I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic.

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(4 votes)   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.

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(3 votes)   And I've lived now in North America close to thirty years. In terms of my politics, I feel a political alliance too, with the Asian community here.

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(3 votes)   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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(3 votes)   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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(2 votes)   There are certain regions in the country where the indigenous people eat dogs.

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(4 votes)   Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer.

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(4 votes)   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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(4 votes)   I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City.

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(3 votes)   I also identify as a Latin person, a person who has Latin blood.

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(3 votes)   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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(3 votes)   Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains.

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