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My kid gets me out of bed in the morning.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

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Lin-Manuel Miranda
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: January 16
Actor
Composer
Film Director
Librettist
Lyricist
Playwright
Rapper
Singer
Songwriter
Stage Actor
Theatrical Director
Translator
Washington Heights
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I loved musicals. I loved being in the school play and being lucky enough to get parts in the school play. But they always took place in some other time and place.
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My power of speech, unimpeachable. Only 19 but my mind is older.
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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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I'm just like my country, I'm young, scrappy and hungry, and I'm not throwing away my shot.
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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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The theater should always be a safe space.
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Don't be shocked when your history book mentions me.
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No one wants to hear me crooning a ballad.
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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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My sister is as responsible for anyone for giving me good taste in music.
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I think one of the things that makes theater special is first of all, it's one of the last places you put your phone away. And second of all, it's one of the last places where we all have a common experience together.
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I got to holler just to be heard.
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I feel like style is like accent. You don't hear it on yourself, and then everyone's like, man, you got a strong accent.
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I'm the music guy, I get to wear the music hat, but being able to be that guy in the room is a thrill at this level and caliber.
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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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I remind myself Vincent van Gogh died without having sold a single painting. Like, art is not measured by the trappings that people attached to it. It's the thing itself, and so, as you know, it's been a dream of mine to write songs for Disney, and so, it's really exciting to finally hear. It's two and a half years.
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It's hard to pick. I mean, I think the one that is most emblematic of the collaboration that occurred is We Know The Way. That's the first song we wrote for the movie [Moana]. We actually got it written that weekend in New Zealand, so we're all in New Zealand, we're all absorbing this culture, and Opetaia [Foa'i] brought it in.
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I still look at that water, and I look at Moana's hair, and I'm just like, How is this even happening? It's such an incredible mix of technical mastery and wizardry. It's really incredible. It's layers and layers and layers. It's not unlike building a musical. It's really pretty cool.
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It's got to feel, the pulse has to feel like this part of the world, the instrumentation has to be true to that, and so, between him, [composer] Mark Mancina and myself, we really chased that, while serving our story Moana].
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I think every writer's had the experience of having a really good idea, waiting to write it, and then once you write it, you're like, Oh I kind of got past the sell by date on this. I'm not connected to the initial spark that was the idea. A lot of that's about staying open.
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