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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."

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"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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Donna Grant

"A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor."

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Donna Grant

"You are whatever you shall leave behind when you leave life!"

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Donna Grant

"If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success."

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Donna Grant

"It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much."

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Donna Grant

"Fair... You'd be amazed how often I hear that word, Frank Zhang,and how meaningless it is. Is it fair your life will burn so short and bright? Was it fair when I guided your mother to the Underworld? No, not fair. And yet it was her time. There is no fairness in Death. If you free me, I will do my duty."

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Donna Grant

"The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion."

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Donna Grant

"The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death.""

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Donna Grant

"To be closed as a person, it's not bad if you know that when this two rules, playing by your rules doesn't mean that you won't end up in jail, security why?We both know that everyone dies... it really doesn't matter who is first... in the end all die!"

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Donna Grant

"He put the car in gear and went, feeling again how easy it had been to slip through an unexpected fissure in what he had considered a solid life- how easy it was to get over onto the dark side, to sail out of the blue and into the black."

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Donna Grant

"It's not that I've 'faked my own death' as the saying goes. Maybe it's that I've 'faked my own life,' and in doing so I've yet to realize how dead I really am."

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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. 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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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."

People

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Jessica Hagedorn
"I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic."

Love

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Jessica Hagedorn
"There are certain regions in the country where the indigenous people eat dogs."

People

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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."

Life

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Jessica Hagedorn
"I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City."

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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."

Being

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Jessica Hagedorn
"Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film."

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

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Jessica Hagedorn
"I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society."

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