"All the fabulous and fearless writers gathered here,……" — Jessica Hagedorn
"All the fabulous and fearless writers gathered here, whether they are living in Manila, the US, or elsewhere in the ever-growing Philippine diaspora, have a deep connection and abiding love for this crazy-making, intoxicating city. There’s nothing like it in the world, and they know it,"
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24 Quotes by Jessica Hagedorn
Jessica Hagedorn has 24 quotes on this site.
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Hybridity keeps me from being rigid about most things. It has taught me to appreciate the contradictions in the world…
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There were also horror shows on the radio. Very terrifying and thrilling to me as a kid. They had all…
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Everything matters. Time is precious.
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Don't say Fili, sister. Say Pili. In Tagalog, pili means to choose. Pino means fine. Pilipino equals 'fine choice.
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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…
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Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains.
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It's not just NYU. There are days when I feel like I'm stranded in some upscale mall in Pasadena. Don't…
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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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I don't know what issues concerning identity have helped contemporary fiction evolve to what it is now. All I know…
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Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer.
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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…
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Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when…
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More Abiding Quotes
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Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right…
— Kate Atkinson
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Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear…
— Cecil Beaton
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A young woman who knows and loves the Book of Mormon, who has read it several times, who has an…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
— Theodore Bikel
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When on life's journey it becomes our lot to travel with criticism of skeptics, the hate of some, the rejection…
— Angel Abrea
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If you want that splendid power in prayer, you must remain in loving, living, lasting, conscious, practical, abiding union with…
— Charles Spurgeon
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A guest worker program should help farmers who are willing to pay a fair wage for law-abiding, dependable workers -…
— Bob Goodlatte
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Trust perfected is prayer perfected. Trust looks to receive the thing asked for and gets it. Trust is not a…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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I have one abiding religion-human liberty.
— Wole Soyinka
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And this is the time. It is the time for this land to become again a witness to the world…
— George McGovern
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Of all the joyous motives of school life, the love of knowledge is the only abiding one; the only one…
— Charlotte Mason
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The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of…
— Ronald Reagan
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