American - Actor | January 16, 1980 -
The fun for me in collaboration is, one, working with other people just makes you smarter; that's proven.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
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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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History is so subjective. The teller of it determines it.
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In the best works of fiction, there's no mustache-twirling villain. I try to write shows where even the bad guy's got his reasons.
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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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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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I like the quiet it takes to pursue an idea the way I pursued 'Hamilton,' but I couldn't write a book, because there's no applause at the end of writing a book.
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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?'
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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.
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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.
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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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Everything we know about Hamilton, we knew when he was alive, because he told us.
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