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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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Playwright
Rapper
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Washington Heights
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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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The distance between where I am and where I want to be seems impossibly large.
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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 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 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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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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Once George Washington said, I have to step down the so the country can move on.
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My power of speech, unimpeachable. Only 19 but my mind is older.
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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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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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I just remembered when I was an adolescent girl wanting to leave my island and find my calling.
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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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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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Disney's really incredible on story.
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I've had a little Hollywood experience, and there's nothing like the Disney story experience.
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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 rhymes are gonna kill, so I suggest you write your will and leave your [expletive] to me.
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I got to holler just to be heard.
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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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