Brandon Victor Dixon Quotes
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For me, religion is a political construct, and spirituality is a community construct, and there's a real difference.
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It's important to seize any opportunity one has to speak to their elected representatives, no matter the situation.
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My love for The Four Tops cannot be expressed greatly enough.
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I think 'Rent' will run forever.
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It is relatively impossible for people to have clear perspectives on themselves when they're in the midst of them, and often harder to recollect after the times, eras, and situations themselves have passed.
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People talking about making America great again? America's never been great. The greatness of America is in its pursuit of greatness.
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I'm artistically critical of my own work.
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I work in musical theater because people keep writing quality stories in the genre, and I'm really all about investing in a piece that says something about our current time, that is, a reflection on who we are today.
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I think that it's important to make criticisms of the government as a whole and criticisms of the policies, but to do so in a way that you can invite the individuals who maybe were on the opposition before, or who voted for somebody whom you are in disagreement with... that you open the door for a conversation with those people.
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I feel like the more we speak for and support others, the less we'll have to worry about speaking for and supporting ourselves.
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We need to encourage people to speak up, to speak out, because the more people who participate in our democracy, the more our democracy grows.
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I grew up in the Episcopal Church, went to private school in that church, went to chapel every day.
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I really only knew the name Berry Gordy growing up, but I didn't know what he looked like or anything about him.
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The producers, the creators, and the cast, we recognize that 'Hamilton' is an inherently American story told by the definition of an American community; we are men and women of different colors, creeds, and orientations.
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As artists, our job is to communicate thoughts and tell stories.
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Art is meant to bring people together. It's meant to raise consciousness.
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Style and image - it's what Motown is about. They had a charm school led by Maxine Powell. There was literally an artists' development department.
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I was a fan of 'Power' before I was working on the show, so I'm excited by every script that comes into my hands.
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Nothing surprises me about Berry Gordy.
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When you mess up, what are you going to do? Just keep going. And speak loudly.
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I think that there is such power with the live performance of it - so much of what 'Motown' is about is the live performance aspect, really. The power of our production is really the music and the performances.
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I have a wide range of influences - I mean, first of all, I am a big, big fan of old soul music. Then, there's people like Donny Hathaway, Elton John... a diverse array of music.
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Berry Gordy is a music legend, and we all know that, but I don't think Berry gets enough credit for his involvement with the civil rights movement.
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Telling diverse stories is at the heart of our culture.