Jessica Hagedorn Quotes
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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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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To be honest, I am very worried about the possibility of the U.K. leaving the E.U. But of course, like in the case of Catalonia, we have to respect the right to decide of the British people on a relationship that part of the Brits consider is not satisfying enough.
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It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.
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We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.
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It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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Every time I go to Comic-Con, I'm jacked. I want to dress up and walk the floor and answer questions, because I'm excited about it. It's like making new friends.
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I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.
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There are so many Muslim women that feel like they don't fit society's standard of beauty. I just wanted to tell them it's OK to be different; being different is beautiful, too.
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its borders.
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My father died when I was only five years old, and that was the moment when I learned a cruel lesson that tomorrow, in fact, might not be another day.
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It seems like whenever you write about Muslims, people assume that you're writing about the Quran, you are writing about the Prophet Muhammad. There's no sense that Muslims are capable of individualism, that they're capable of making mistakes that are somehow not connected to Islam.
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I don't like talking about 'solutions.' I prefer talking about intelligent responses.
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What shaped me the most would probably be when my dad passed away. For the rest of my life, I'll kind of feel like he's gonna come home.
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Every man has an equal right to the necessaries of life even as birds and beasts have.
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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.