I'm preparing for a multimedia theater p... by Jessica Hagedorn | We Heart Quotes

Author Music poet playwright Filipino-American

I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City.

- Jessica Hagedorn

Other quotes by Jessica Hagedorn

Mother Writer

Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer.

- Jessica Hagedorn

Feeling Being

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.

- Jessica Hagedorn

Time

Everything matters. Time is precious.

- Jessica Hagedorn

Drama Movies Years

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.

- Jessica Hagedorn

Joy Sense End Want People

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.

- Jessica Hagedorn

Writing Love

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

- Jessica Hagedorn

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