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I'm just like my country, I'm young, scrappy and hungry, and I'm not throwing away my shot.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

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Lin-Manuel Miranda
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: January 16
Actor
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Film Director
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Washington Heights
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The distance between where I am and where I want to be seems impossibly large.
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I think I started writing because no one had ever told me you can write about the things you know in a musical. They don't have to come from some far off place.
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My sister is as responsible for anyone for giving me good taste in music.
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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 got to fall in love. I got to win a war. I got to write words that inspired a nation.
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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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We get the job done. So what happens if we win?
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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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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 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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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 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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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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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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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 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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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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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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