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I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal trying to reach my goal.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
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Lin-Manuel Miranda
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: January 16
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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 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 just remembered when I was an adolescent girl wanting to leave my island and find my calling.
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The problem is I got a lot of brains but no polish.
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Well, hello. My name is Lin. But if you're dyslexic, call me Nil.
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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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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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No one wants to hear me crooning a ballad.
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Sebastian, en Español, is a bad ass name.
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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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I've had a little Hollywood experience, and there's nothing like the Disney story experience.
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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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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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With every word, I drop knowledge.
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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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My kid gets me out of bed in the morning.
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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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The distance between where I am and where I want to be seems impossibly large.
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Don't be shocked when your history book mentions me.
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The theater should always be a safe space.
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