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"If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing."
"Instead of being on teams at school, I was preparing for auditions."
"Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being."
"Being constantly with children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn't bear to throw them out, but they gave her blisters."
"I'm dealing in rock'n'roll. I'm, like, I'm not a bona fide human being."
Explore more quotes by 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."
"I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society."
"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."
"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'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City."
"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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