Lin-Manuel Miranda
Actor
1980-01-16
Quotes by Lin-Manuel Miranda
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I know my sister like I know my own mind, you will never find anyone as trusting or as kind.
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[WASHINGTON]It's alright, you want to fight, you've got a hungerI was just like you when I was youngerHead full of fantasies of dyin' like a martyr?[HAMILTON]Yes[WASHINGTON]Dying is easy, young man. Living is harder
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[HAMILTON]I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory
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[BURR]I am the one thing in life I can control.
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[WASHINGTON]It's alright, you want to fight, you've got a hungerI was just like you when I was youngerHead full of fantasies of dyin' like a martyr?[HAMILTON]Yes[WASHINGTON]Dying is easy, young man. Living is harder
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[BURR]I am the one thing in life I can control.
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I know my sister like I know my own mind, you will never find anyone as trusting or as kind.
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[HAMILTON]I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory
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The musicals that leave us kind of staggering on our feet are the ones that really reach for a lot.
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Sometimes a line enters your head, and you're so grateful for it. You go online to check to see if anyone wrote it before you. You must have stolen it.
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History is so subjective. The teller of it determines it.
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Making words rhyme for a living is one of the great joys of my life... That's a superpower I've been very conscious of developing. I started at the same level as everybody else, and then I just listened to more music and talked to myself until it was an actual superpower I could pull out on special occasions.
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I always had an eye toward the stage for the story of Hamilton's life, but I began with the idea of a concept album, the way Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'Evita' and 'Jesus Christ Superstar' were albums before they were musicals.
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My only responsibility as a playwright and a storyteller is to give you the time of your life in the theatre. I just happen to think that with Hamilton's story, sticking close to the facts helps me. All the most interesting things in the show happened.
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What's incredible about 'Hamilton,' and the reason you can't get a ticket, is because everyone's responding to it. Everyone is seeing a bit of themselves in it.
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The only shows I saw as a kid were that holy trinity: 'Les Miz,' 'Cats,' 'Phantom.'
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I grew up in an immigrant neighborhood. We just knew the rule was you're going to have to work twice as hard.
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What 'Twilight Zone' did was show we all have a great capacity for good and evil.
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You could do a 'Les Mis'-type musical about Hamilton, but it would have to be 12 hours long, because the amount of words on the bars when you're writing a typical song - that's maybe got 10 words per line.
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There's been lots of theater that uses hip-hop in it, but more often than not, it's used as a joke - isn't it hilarious that these characters are rapping. I treat it as a musical form, and a musical form that allows you to pack in a ton of lyric.
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