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

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"One must indeed test the strings to this life, bounce the bow, wet the mouthpiece, prepare for the deeper music that follows."

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"There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is."

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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

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"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."

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"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."

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"We could argue about what constitutes the creepiest line in pop music, but for me it's early Beatles- John Lennon, actually- singing 'I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man."

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"Music fills the void between the heart and soul and connects them in heavenly delights."

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"Music is the fastest motivator in the world."

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"I listen to music constantly while writing."

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"Music has the ability to express in the upbeat every brilliant aspect of existence, while on the downbeat convey the anguish that a human being experiences when apprehending the fleeting nature of time, and the mysterious torture of living and dying. Music stands alone in its ability to communicate the symbols and phases of life, both being and nonbeing."

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"Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film."
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"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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"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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"Everything matters. Time is precious."
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"Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer."
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"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."
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"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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"I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic."
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"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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"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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