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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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If you think in terms of topping, you're in the wrong business. You can't think that way.
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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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No one wants to hear me crooning a ballad.
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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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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 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 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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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 past patiently waitin,' I'm passionately smashin' every expectation, every action's an act of creation.
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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. 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've had a little Hollywood experience, and there's nothing like the Disney story experience.
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I got to holler just to be heard.
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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 the job [in Moana project] about six months before we started rehearsals. No, seven and a half months before we started at the Public, and so, it's been my ocean of calm throughout the Hamilton phenomenon.
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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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Disney's really incredible on story.
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