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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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"With an open mind, you are the imagination of universal consciousness and the creation of the subconscious mind that wanders throughout the universe."
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"Our imagination is bigger than this universe."
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"My thoughts are stars I can't fanthom into constellations."
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"Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out."
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"Dream extravagantly, for God has imbued us with ample imagination to dream out to and across the very periphery of the impossible."
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"Before he had lost his sight, the maester had loved books as much as Samwell Tarly did. He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into them, as if each page was a hole into another world."
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"Fantasy is a wise lie."
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"The complete recipe for imagination is absolute boredom."
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"Never tell to much. The monster is always scarier when it is still under the child's bed."
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"The main reason why God gave us imaginations is to allow us to have a specific power that can help us make realistic decisions."
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"There are certain regions in the country where the indigenous people eat dogs."
People
"Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains."
Life
"Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film."
Music
"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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"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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"We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child."
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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."
Life
"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 think for a lot of so-called post-colonial peoples, there's a feeling of not being quite legitimate, of not being pure enough."
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