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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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If you think in terms of topping, you're in the wrong business. You can't think that way.
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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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Don't be shocked when your history book mentions me.
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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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My rhymes are gonna kill, so I suggest you write your will and leave your [expletive] to me.
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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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My power of speech, unimpeachable. Only 19 but my mind is older.
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I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal trying to reach my goal.
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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 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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The problem is I got a lot of brains but no polish.
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I think you balance the things you've been dying to do all your life. And the opportunities that come along, that you didn't maybe think of, that are so amazing, that you'd kick yourself if you didn't try to be a part of them.
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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 had the good fortune of being 9 years old when The Little Mermaid came out, that whole run of really beautiful Disney musicals, and so, the fact that I got to interview with Ron [Clements] and John [Musker], who directed The Little Mermaid, I was, like, I just walked in and said, You're the reason I'm even here.
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The distance between where I am and where I want to be seems impossibly large.
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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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My sister is as responsible for anyone for giving me good taste in music.
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I got to holler just to be heard.
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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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