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I'm not going to hang out with celebrities, I'm not going to parties. I have two songs due for Moana next week, and I'm going to go and spend some time with Maui and Moana in the ocean, in my mind.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
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Lin-Manuel Miranda
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: January 16
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The distance between where I am and where I want to be seems impossibly large.
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I'm not trying to make something that is difficult to perform every night. It needs to proceed at the speed of that character's thought because that's the only way it's actable.
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I have two wonderful, supportive and very practical parents who were like, you're really talented and really creative. You should be a lawyer because there's a safe path there. And I knew that I was never going to be a lawyer. And I knew that I wanted to make movies, and I wanted to write shows.
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Well, hello. My name is Lin. But if you're dyslexic, call me Nil.
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My rhymes are gonna kill, so I suggest you write your will and leave your [expletive] to me.
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My kid gets me out of bed in the morning.
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I'm just like my country, I'm young, scrappy and hungry, and I'm not throwing away my shot.
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I just remembered when I was an adolescent girl wanting to leave my island and find my calling.
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We get the job done. So what happens if we win?
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Tuesdays and Thursdays, I didn't do any press, I didn't do any meetings, I just wrote all day, 'cause I'd meet, via Skype, with the creative team, at five p.m., and then I would have my seven o'clock curtain.
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