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If you think in terms of topping, you're in the wrong business. You can't think that way.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
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Lin-Manuel Miranda
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: January 16
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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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Well, hello. My name is Lin. But if you're dyslexic, call me Nil.
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My power of speech, unimpeachable. Only 19 but my mind is older.
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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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