Quotes by Jessica Hagedorn

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.

Blood

Church

Loyal

Adaptability is the simple secret of survival.

Secret

Simple

Survival

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.

Cities

Crazy

Fearless

Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer.

Becoming

Mother

Stronger

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.

People

Play

Thinking

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

Choices

Fine

Mean

Everything matters. Time is precious.

Matter

Time Is Precious

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.

Children

Growing Up

Men

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.

Appreciate

Hybridity

World

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

Blood

Latin

Persons

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Airports

Appreciate

Becoming

Believe

Blood

Challenges

Children

Choices

Church

Cities

Contemporary Fiction

Country

Crazy

Dialogue

Dog

Drama

Enough

Eye

Fearless

Feelings

Film

Fine

Grandmother

Growing Up

Hero

Hybridity

Identity

Imagination

Influential

Kids

Latin

Loyal

Malls

Matter

Mean

Men

Mind

Mother

New York

Night

Nyu

People

Persons

Play

Polite

Punk

Real

Sampling

Scary

Scene

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Quotes by Jessica Hagedorn

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.

Adaptability is the simple secret of survival.

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.

Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer.

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.

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

Everything matters. Time is precious.

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.

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.

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

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