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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.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
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Lin-Manuel Miranda
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: January 16
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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 got to holler just to be heard.
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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 just remembered when I was an adolescent girl wanting to leave my island and find my calling.
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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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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 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 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'm past patiently waitin,' I'm passionately smashin' every expectation, every action's an act of creation.
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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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