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Sebastian, en Español, is a bad ass name.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

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Lin-Manuel Miranda
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: January 16
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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 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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I read reviews, I'm not going to lie to y'all. Like you know, I'll read 'em, but then, the next day I'm able to sort of shrug them off. But if something sort of sticks the next day, there's probably something to it. I just sort of really try to trust my gut on, on all that stuff.
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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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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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I'm just like my country, I'm young, scrappy and hungry, and I'm not throwing away my shot.
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Ed Koch once said that New York City is where immigrants come to audition for America. That's what happened to my parents that's what happened to me.
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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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Disney's really incredible on story.
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I got to fall in love. I got to win a war. I got to write words that inspired a nation.
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I've had a little Hollywood experience, and there's nothing like the Disney story experience.
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The problem is I got a lot of brains but no polish.
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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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No one wants to hear me crooning a ballad.
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I got the job [in Moana], and the next day I was on a plane to New Zealand, where the rest of the team was already doing research, and meeting with different choirs, and sort of really soaking up the music, the musical world of, the musical heritage of this part of the world.
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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.
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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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I'm past patiently waitin,' I'm passionately smashin' every expectation, every action's an act of creation.
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The distance between where I am and where I want to be seems impossibly large.
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