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We get the job done. So what happens if we win?
Lin-Manuel Miranda
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Lin-Manuel Miranda
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: January 16
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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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I've had a little Hollywood experience, and there's nothing like the Disney story experience.
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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 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'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal trying to reach my goal.
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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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My sister is as responsible for anyone for giving me good taste in music.
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Sebastian, en Español, is a bad ass name.
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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'm just like my country, I'm young, scrappy and hungry, and I'm not throwing away my shot.
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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 got to holler just to be heard.
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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 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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Well, hello. My name is Lin. But if you're dyslexic, call me Nil.
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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 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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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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