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I got the job [in Moana project] about six months before we started rehearsals. No, seven and a half months before we started at the Public, and so, it's been my ocean of calm throughout the Hamilton phenomenon.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

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Lin-Manuel Miranda
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: January 16
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Once George Washington said, I have to step down the so the country can move on.
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I'm past patiently waitin,' I'm passionately smashin' every expectation, every action's an act of creation.
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It's an enormous relief to go to work and be an actor and not be worried about writing.
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Disney's really incredible on story.
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