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" Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains. "
Jessica Hagedorn
Simple
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People
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" Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer. "
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Becoming
" 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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Movies
Imagination
Know
" Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film. "
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Film
Music
Theater
" 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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Think
End
Live
" 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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Life
Best
World
" 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. "
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Magical
Know
Humor
" 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
Know
Now
Up
" 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
Pure
Enough
Feeling
" Everything matters. Time is precious. "
Jessica Hagedorn
Matters
Time
Precious
" I'm part Spanish. My paternal grandfather came from Spain via Singapore to Manila. On my mother's side it's more mixture, with a Filipino mother and a father who was Scotch Irish-French; you know, white American hybrid. And I also have on my father's side a great-great-grandmother who was Chinese. So, I'm a hybrid. "
Jessica Hagedorn
You
Know
Father
" I also identify as a Latin person, a person who has Latin blood. "
Jessica Hagedorn
Who
Blood
Identify
" 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
Film
Healthy
Growing Up
" I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City. "
Jessica Hagedorn
Music
New
New York
" I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic. "
Jessica Hagedorn
Visual
Think
Love
" 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
Music
You
Believe
" 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
Grandmother
Identity
Imagination
" There is real beauty in my eyes when I lose my mind. "
Jessica Hagedorn
Lose
Beauty
Real
" I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society. "
Jessica Hagedorn
Person
Society
Seem
" There are certain regions in the country where the indigenous people eat dogs. "
Jessica Hagedorn
Indigenous
Indigenous People
People