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Lin-Manuel Miranda Biography

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Lin-Manuel Miranda (/lɪn mænˈwɛl məˈrændə/; born January 16, 1980) is an American composer, lyricist, playwright, and actor of Puerto Rican ancestry best known for creating and starring in the Broadway musicals In the Heights and Hamilton. He co-wrote the songs for Disney's Moana soundtrack (2016) and is set to co-star in the upcoming film Mary Poppins Returns. Miranda's awards include a Pulitzer Prize, three Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, and three Tony Awards.

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Once George Washington said, "I have to step down the so the country can move on. "

Country, Down, Moving, Said, Step, Washington

I loved musicals. I loved being in the school play and being lucky enough to get parts in the school play. But they always took place in some other time and place.

Lucky, Parts, Place, Play, School, Time

I came up with the "We are explorers," with sort of a counter-melody to [Opetaia Foa'i] melody. And so, it happened so organically, that it really, to me, is the most emblematic of our collaboration.

Collaboration, Emblematic, Explorers, Melody

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

Friends, Hip Hop, Hips, Middle, Musicals, Stood

I've had a little Hollywood experience, and there's nothing like the Disney story experience.

Disney, Hollywood, Like, Littles, Stories, Story

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.

Due, Ocean, Parties, Party, Song, Time

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

Distance, Impossibly, Large, Seems, Want

I know the action in the street is exciting, but Jesus between all the bleeding and fighting I've been reading and writing.

Bleeding, Fighting, Jesus, Reading, Writing

I just remembered when I was an adolescent girl wanting to leave my island and find my calling.

Adolescent, Calling, Girl, Islands, Leave

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.

Audience, Cases, Country, Inspiration, Look, Morning

It's hard to pick. I mean, I think the one that is most emblematic of the collaboration that occurred is "We Know The Way. " That's the first song we wrote for the movie [Moana]. We actually got it written that weekend in New Zealand, so we're all in New Zealand, we're all absorbing this culture, and Opetaia [Foa'i] brought it in.

Emblematic, Hard, Mean, Song, Weekend, Zealand

I liked writing the negative ads more than - because it's more minor chords.

Ads, Chords, Negative, Writing

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.

Dreamt, Father, Morning, Thinking, Weird

I have two wonderful, supportive and very practical parents who were like, you're really talented and really creative. You should be a lawyer because there's a safe path there. And I knew that I was never going to be a lawyer. And I knew that I wanted to make movies, and I wanted to write shows.

Creative, Safe, Supportive, Two, Writing

I am not throwing away my shot.

Away, Shot, Shots, Throwing, Throwing Away

These New York City streets get colder, I shoulder every burden every disadvantage I've learned to manage. I don't have a gun to brandish. I walk these streets famished.

Burden, Cities, Gun, Manage, New York, Shoulder

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.

Girl, I Like You, Maybe, Rituals, Song

I probably shouldn't brag, but dag I amaze and astonish.

Amaze, Astonish, Brag, Dag, Probably

The problem is I got a lot of brains but no polish.

Brain, Brains, Polish, Problem

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.

Common, Experience, Phones, Special, Theater, Thinking

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