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My power of speech, unimpeachable. Only 19 but my mind is older.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
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Lin-Manuel Miranda
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: January 16
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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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My rhymes are gonna kill, so I suggest you write your will and leave your [expletive] to me.
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I think one of the things that makes theater special is first of all, it's one of the last places you put your phone away. And second of all, it's one of the last places where we all have a common experience together.
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I got to holler just to be heard.
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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 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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My sister is as responsible for anyone for giving me good taste in music.
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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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The distance between where I am and where I want to be seems impossibly large.
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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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Well, hello. My name is Lin. But if you're dyslexic, call me Nil.
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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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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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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 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'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal trying to reach my goal.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
I just remembered when I was an adolescent girl wanting to leave my island and find my calling.
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We get the job done. So what happens if we win?
Lin-Manuel Miranda
I've had a little Hollywood experience, and there's nothing like the Disney story experience.
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