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Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lin-Manuel Miranda
American Actor
Born: Jan 16, 1980
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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. Lin-Manuel Miranda
Work You Rule Neighborhood Immigrant Knew Up Going Just Grew Hard Twice
Anytime you write something, you go through so many phases. You go through the 'I'm a Fraud' phase. You go through the 'I'll Never Finish' phase. And every once in a while you think, 'What if I actually have created what I set out to create, and it's received as such?' Lin-Manuel Miranda
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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. Lin-Manuel Miranda
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'Rent' was the show that made me want to write. Or that showed me you're allowed to write. Lin-Manuel Miranda
Me You Made Write Allowed Rent Want Show
I don't differentiate between black and Latino actors. We're in the same struggle to be represented in a way that's even close to honest. And I can tell you that the amount of Latino characters I can point at and say, 'That's what my life experience looks like' - I can't think of any off the top of my head besides Jimmy Smits in 'Mi Familia.' Lin-Manuel Miranda
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The fun for me in collaboration is, one, working with other people just makes you smarter; that's proven. Lin-Manuel Miranda
Me You People Other Collaboration Smarter Makes Proven Just Working Fun
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. Lin-Manuel Miranda
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You know what's a great way of tricking people into thinking you're a genius? Write a show about geniuses! Lin-Manuel Miranda
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I like to separate the music- and lyric-writing processes if I can. I'll sort of noodle around on my keyboard and my computer until I have a beat or a chord progression, I'll record it as a loop, export it to iTunes, then walk around with the loop and sort of talk to myself in the loop, and that's how I get the lyrics. Lin-Manuel Miranda
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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. Lin-Manuel Miranda
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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. Lin-Manuel Miranda
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The reason 'Hamilton' works is because there is no distance between that story that happened 200-some-odd years ago and now, because it looks like America now. It helps create a connection that wouldn't have been there if it was 20 white guys on stage. Lin-Manuel Miranda
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In 'Hamilton,' we're telling the stories of old, dead white men, but we're using actors of color, and that makes the story more immediate and more accessible to a contemporary audience. Lin-Manuel Miranda
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We've had characters like Trump in American politics forever, characters who trade on xenophobia. Lin-Manuel Miranda
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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. Lin-Manuel Miranda
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I couldn't possibly write 'Next to Normal,' but God, I can weep and watch 'Next to Normal' five times. Lin-Manuel Miranda
God Possibly Write Weep Normal Five Times Next Watch
I think I'm always subconsciously trying to write the ideal school play. Lots of parts for everybody, great parts for women - don't forget, more girls try out than boys in the school play; everyone gets to be in the school play. Lin-Manuel Miranda
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Biggie and Big Pun were the best storytellers of the '90s. I would get wrapped up in the narrative of what they were talking about. Lin-Manuel Miranda
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The only other thing that's like video games for me is watching tennis on TV. I can have it on, and there's a rhythmic quality to it - I can be watching Wimbledon or the U.S. Open and still be working. Lin-Manuel Miranda
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What I learned from my go-round with 'In the Heights' is that it's tough to make a movie. In Hollywood, even the people in charge have people in charge. Lin-Manuel Miranda
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I kind of need to be ambulatory to write lyrics. Lin-Manuel Miranda
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We love 'Fiddler.' We love 'West Side Story.' I want to be in that club. I want to be in the club that writes the musical that every high school does. Lin-Manuel Miranda
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If Hamilton were on Twitter, he would have been a worse oversharer than me. Lin-Manuel Miranda
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Everything we know about Hamilton, we knew when he was alive, because he told us. Lin-Manuel Miranda
Everything Alive About He Knew Know Because Hamilton Us
I'm honored to have been chosen as a fellow of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. I am hugely appreciative for the support I have had throughout my life, and I look forward to using the grant to help institutions that have fed my soul and to support new work that inspires me. Lin-Manuel Miranda
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A lot of the reason the Universal version of 'Heights' went away is that they were afraid they didn't have a big enough Latino star to bankroll this movie. The people I dealt with at the studio who wanted to make this movie were very passionate about it. Lin-Manuel Miranda
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