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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
Film Director
Librettist
Lyricist
Playwright
Rapper
Singer
Songwriter
Stage Actor
Theatrical Director
Translator
Washington Heights
New York
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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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My rhymes are gonna kill, so I suggest you write your will and leave your [expletive] to me.
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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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My power of speech, unimpeachable. Only 19 but my mind is older.
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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 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 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 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'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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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 sister is as responsible for anyone for giving me good taste in music.
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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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With every word, I drop knowledge.
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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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The problem is I got a lot of brains but no polish.
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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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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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Well, hello. My name is Lin. But if you're dyslexic, call me Nil.
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Don't be shocked when your history book mentions me.
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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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