There were also horror shows on the radi... by Jessica Hagedorn

Author poet Death playwright Sound

There were also horror shows on the radio. Very terrifying and thrilling to me as a kid. They had all these creepy sound effects. They would come on at ten o'clock at night, and I just would scare myself to death.

- Jessica Hagedorn

Other quotes by Jessica Hagedorn

Society

I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.

- 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

Imagination

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.

- 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

Movies Men Women Now Film

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.

- Jessica Hagedorn

Time

Everything matters. Time is precious.

- Jessica Hagedorn

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