Lin-Manuel Miranda Quotes

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• Everyday has the potential to be the greatest day of your life

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Everyday

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• I try to let my decisions be guided not by what I think will succeed or fail, but what I'm going to learn from that process.

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  Thinking, Decision, Trying

  Source: www.npr.org

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• You can't control the success or failure of a thing you work on. You can only control the thing you work on.

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  Success Or Failure

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I'm past patiently waitin,' I'm passionately smashin' every expectation, every action's an act of creation.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Past, Expectations, Action

  Twitter post from Dec 29, 2012

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• I had friends who only listened to hip-hop. I had friends who only listened to musicals, and I stood proudly in the middle.

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  Hip Hop, Hips, Middle

  Source: www.npr.org

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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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  Goal, Trying, Coal

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

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• I went to a school where everyone was smarter than me. And I'm not blowin' smoke, I, my, I was surrounded by genius, genius kids. What's interesting about growing up in a culture like that is you go, "All right, I gotta figure out what my thing is. Because I'm not smarter than these kids. I'm not funnier than half of them, so I better figure out what it is I wanna do and work really hard at that because intellectually I'm treading water to, to be here."

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  Growing Up, School, Kids

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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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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  Thinking, Phones, Special

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The distance between where I am and where I want to be seems impossibly large.

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  Distance, Want, Seems

  Source: collider.com

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• I think if you want to make a recipe for making a writer, have them feel a little out of place everywhere, have them be an observer kind of all the time. And that's a great way to make a writer.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Thinking, Recipes, Want

  Source: www.npr.org

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• If you're thinking about the idea in the shower. If you're thinking about the idea while you're walking your dog, there's probably something to it.

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  Dog, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: highlightsalongtheway.com

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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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  Country, Hungry, Shots

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

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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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  Opportunity, Thinking, Balance

  Source: highlightsalongtheway.com

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• The theater should always be a safe space.

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  Space, Safe, Should

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The music you love when you're a teenager is always going to be the most important to you.

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  Teenager, Important

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Don't be shocked when your history book mentions me.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Book, Shocked, History Books

  Twitter post from May 2, 2015

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• When I get called in for stuff for Hollywood, I get to be the best friend of the Caucasian leadIf I want to play the main guy, I have found, I have to write it.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Writing, Play, Guy

  "All About the Hamiltons" by Rebecca Mead, www.newyorker.com. February 9, 2015.

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• I am the epitome of coolness.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Epitome, Coolness

  Source: www.npr.org

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• When you're dealing with a constant rhythm, no matter how great your lyrics are, if you don't switch it up, people's heads are going to start bobbing. And they're going to stop listening to what you're saying, so consistently keep the ear fresh and keep the audience surprised.

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  People, Listening, Ears

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Well, hello. My name is Lin. But if you're dyslexic, call me Nil.

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  Names, Hello, Call Me

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I think every writer's had the experience of having a really good idea, waiting to write it, and then once you write it, you're like, "Oh I kind of got past the sell by date on this." I'm not connected to the initial spark that was the idea. A lot of that's about staying open.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Writing, Past, Thinking

  Source: highlightsalongtheway.com

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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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  New York, Cities, America

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• You know, you're doing the same show every day, and your inspiration, you have to look no further than the fact that you know people travel across the country to see you. In a lot of cases, this is that audience's only chance to see the thing, and so, that's what gets you up in the morning, and that's what gets you giving your best performance on stage, is the awareness that this audience is ready for it, and here to have an experience, and so in turn are you.

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  Country, Morning, Inspiration

  Source: deadline.com

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

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Giving, Performers

  Source: www.npr.org

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