Lin-Manuel Miranda Quotes - Page 2

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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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  Dream, Song, Art

  Source: deadline.com

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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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  Girl, Islands, Calling

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I wouldn't give a performer something I couldn't deliver myself.

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  Giving, Performers

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I'm not going to hang out with celebrities, I'm not going to parties. I have two songs due for Moana next week, and I'm going to go and spend some time with Maui and Moana in the ocean, in my mind.

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  Song, Party, Ocean

  Source: deadline.com

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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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  Falling In Love, War, Writing

  Source: www.npr.org

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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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  Goal, Trying, Coal

  "Beyond Taylor Swift: Predicting The 2016 Grammys", boisestatepublicradio.org. December 6, 2015.

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• With every word, I drop knowledge.

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  "Song: "My Shot" ("Hamilton")". 2015.

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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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  Beautiful, Running, Years

  Source: deadline.com

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• I 've got this weird day that changed my life. I woke up one Wednesday, and my wife's a lawyer, she was off to get on a plane, to go to a business meeting somewhere else, and she said, "I think you might be a father. I have to go to the airport." It was like, six in the morning, and I was like, "That's great - what?!" I called her at noon once her flight landed, to confirm that I hadn't dreamt the thing she told me.

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  Morning, Father, Thinking

  Source: highlightsalongtheway.com

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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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  Guy, Thrill, Levels

  Source: deadline.com

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• I want as many people to see the show [Hamilton] in its musical theater form as possible before it's translated, and whether it's a good act of translation or a bad act of translation, it's a leap, and very few stage shows manage the leap successfully.

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  People, Musical, Want

  Source: deadline.com

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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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  Writing, Thinking, Musical

  Source: www.npr.org

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• If you know the voice you're writing for it's such a shortcut. It's such a catalyst to creating the kind of energy you want.

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  Writing, Voice, Creating

  Source: deadline.com

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• I am not throwing away my shot.

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  Shots, Throwing, Throwing Away

  "Song: "My Shot" ("Hamilton")". 2015.

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• My sister is as responsible for anyone for giving me good taste in music.

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  Giving, Taste In Music, My Sister

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I felt so nourished by the process of making [Moana], of you're always engaged with other artists from different disciplines, and it's about bringing your art form to the table. It's so many art forms mashed together.

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  Art, Discipline, Together

  Source: deadline.com

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• I will lay down my life if it sets us free.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Lays, Ifs

  "Having Thick Skin Is A 'Survival Technique,' Says Comic Jeff Ross". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 13, 2016.

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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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  Lying, Next Day, Trying

  Source: highlightsalongtheway.com

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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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  Hair, Water, Musical

  Source: deadline.com

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• The reason I make that distinction cassette before CD is you have to listen to it in the order in which I've curated it for you. You know, side A to side B is our act break.

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  Order, Cds, Sides

  Source: www.npr.org

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• It's an enormous relief to go to work and be an actor and not be worried about writing.

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  Writing, Relief, Actors

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I think, there are a couple of songs. I'm really proud of How far I'll Go. I literally locked myself up in my childhood bedroom at my parents' house to write those lyrics. I wanted to get to my angstiest possible place. So I went method on that.

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  Song, Couple, Writing

  Source: kellystilwell.com

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• Sebastian, en Español, is a bad ass name.

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  Bad Ass, Names, Ass

  Source: highlightsalongtheway.com

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• I grew up in the time just when cassettes were waning and CDs were growing. And so mix tapes - and not mix CDs - mix tapes were an important part of the friendship and mating rituals of New York adolescents. If you were a girl and I wanted you - to show you I like you, I would make you a 90-minute cassette wherein I would show off my tastes. I would play you a musical theater song next to a hip-hop song next to an oldie next to some pop song you maybe never heard, also subliminally telling you how much I like you with all these songs.

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  Girl, Song, I Like You

  Source: www.npr.org

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• No one wants to hear me crooning a ballad.

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  Want, Ballads

  Source: www.npr.org

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