"Death is so inconvenient e and illness is so inconvenient especially in our fast-phased life. And I think, ironically, it’s what people miss out on. That in reflecting about your mortality, you actually can find quiet, a kind of grace na puwede mong isaalang-alang yung sarili mo (a kind of grace that you can consider yourself). Let someone else take charge of you instead of you’re always the one na lang that’s taking care of yourself."
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Marilou Diaz-Abaya
Marilou Correa Diaz-Abaya (née Diaz; March 30, 1955 – October 8, 2012) was a Filipina multi-award winning film director. She was posthumously conferred the Order of National Artists of the Philippines for Film and Broadcast Arts in 2022, she was the founder and president of the Marilou Diaz-Abaya Film Institute and Arts Center, a film school based in Antipolo, Philippines. She was the director of the 1998 film José Rizal, a biographical film on the Philippines' national hero of the same name. Sh
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