top of page
Quote_1.png
Jessica Hagedorn

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

Standard 
 Customized
"There are certain regions in the country where the indigenous people eat dogs."

Exlpore more People quotes

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"You can stroke people with words."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it."

Explore more quotes by Jessica Hagedorn

Quote_1.png
Jessica Hagedorn
"I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society."
Quote_1.png
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."
Quote_1.png
Jessica Hagedorn
"I also identify as a Latin person, a person who has Latin blood."
Quote_1.png
Jessica Hagedorn
"Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains."
Quote_1.png
Jessica Hagedorn
"Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film."
Quote_1.png
Jessica Hagedorn
"Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer."
Quote_1.png
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."
Quote_1.png
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."
Quote_1.png
Jessica Hagedorn
"Everything matters. Time is precious."
Quote_1.png
Jessica Hagedorn
"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."
bottom of page