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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
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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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Disney's really incredible on story.
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The theater should always be a safe space.
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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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Don't be shocked when your history book mentions me.
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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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[Opetaia Foa'i] brought in the melody and the lyrics, but the lyrics were in Tokelauan, and so, we talked about what it could mean and whether this could be the ancestor song. So, I started writing English lyrics to sort of the same melody.
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Well, hello. My name is Lin. But if you're dyslexic, call me Nil.
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My kid gets me out of bed in the morning.
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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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My power of speech, unimpeachable. Only 19 but my mind is older.
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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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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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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 just remembered when I was an adolescent girl wanting to leave my island and find my calling.
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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 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 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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