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Jessica Hagedorn

"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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Amber Hurdle

"Though the earth contains greater energy and mass than any single being, linked together, "people make the world go-round"."

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"Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody knows. People will stand much more from him."

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Amber Hurdle

"When a man's girlfriend's parents ask him what it is that he does for a living: they're not really concerned about him, they're concerned about their daughter's tummy."

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Amber Hurdle

"I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business con."

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Amber Hurdle

"The greater ignorance towards a country is not ignoring what its politicians have to say, it is ignoring what the inmates in its prisons have to say."

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Amber Hurdle

"It was masturbation, not willpower, that made it possible for gazillions of women to walk down the aisle with their reputation and their hymen still intact."

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"Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting along was the big aim, but after that I decided everybody being colorless together was a better plan. I thought of that policeman, Eddie Hazelwurst, saying I'd lowered myself to be in this house of colored women, and for the very life of me I couldn't understand how it had turned out this way, how colored women had become the lowest ones on the totem pole. You only had to look at them to see how special they were, like hidden royalty among us. Eddie Hazelwurst. What a shitbucket."

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Amber Hurdle

"Electing a bigot enables further bigotry."

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"Civilization is the commercialization of survival."

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"No herd is more herd than the mass of ignorant people!"

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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 also identify as a Latin person, a person who has Latin blood."
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"Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains."
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"Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film."
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"Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer."
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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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"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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"Everything matters. Time is precious."
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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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