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I got to holler just to be heard.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
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Lin-Manuel Miranda
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: January 16
Actor
Composer
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Washington Heights
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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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Disney's really incredible on story.
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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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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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With every word, I drop knowledge. I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal trying to reach my goal.
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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'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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It's an enormous relief to go to work and be an actor and not be worried about writing.
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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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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 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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We get the job done. So what happens if we win?
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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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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 got the job [in Moana project] about six months before we started rehearsals. No, seven and a half months before we started at the Public, and so, it's been my ocean of calm throughout the Hamilton phenomenon.
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I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal trying to reach my goal.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Sebastian, en Español, is a bad ass name.
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