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Jessica Hagedorn

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

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"Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution."

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"It is often said that the magnitude of a people is measured by their ability to know how to win."

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"Like it or not, the people of Arkansas sent me to Washington to represent them in this great body."

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"It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting."

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"We ought to know that all people are not the same and so we must not expect the same attitude from all people. Different people behave differently and that is what makes different people different."

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"If you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have read hundred different books! Every person you know is a book; world is full of walking books; some are boring, some are marvellous, some are weak, some are powerful, but they are all useful because they all carry different experiences of different paths!"

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"We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves."

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"Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States."

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"People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else."

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"We get a ton of email; everybody does now. It gives us a kind of a pulse that you can feel.We hear people saying, thank you for being fair, for being balanced."

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

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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
"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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Jessica Hagedorn
"Everything matters. Time is precious."

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

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

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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 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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"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."

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