Lin-Manuel Miranda Quotes
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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There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
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The talent curve in game-making is going straight up to Heaven.
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I don't like stock buybacks. I think if a company has the money to buy their stock back, then they should take that and increase the dividends. Send it back to the stockholder. Let them invest their money again from the dividends.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist.
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Take time to be kind and to say 'thank you.'
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The American people are frustrated.
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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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Throughout school I appeared in all sorts of productions and deep in my heart of hearts I knew that was what I want to do more than anything else.
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Everyone is always telling me that I must be exhausted, but I've learned how to use my time well, and that includes holidays to recharge. I always try to give myself big chunks of time to think about what the next project is going to be.
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I feel like a survivor from an age that people no longer understand. I want to try to explain what the 1930s - the golden age of Hollywood - was truly like. People forget that America was such a different place then, not yet the dominant force in the world.
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I would have quit before I went rock-n-roll. I know one way, and that's natural, and when I can't make it, I'll come home and stay. I believe in my music.
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You get perspective on things when you're away from your child, and in a way, your love for them becomes even deeper.
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Would it be a surprise if entrepreneurs recoil at the thought of consciously courting any person who has more power and money than they have?
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I find it frustrating when people wear belts with braces. That's an interesting one.
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I directed a movie and now, I'm going to do the editing.
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There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision.
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When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.
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I couldn't do rap. I was trying. I don't know how. I'm not good enough to know.
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I had written a script called 'Freed,' which I had wanted to direct.
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Our trade negotiations should ensure that American workers are protected and that there are mechanisms in place to deal with other countries cheating.
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What I'm really focused on is connecting people around shared interests, so together they can make good stuff happen. I'm more focused on helping people discover their power as individuals, but through those connections with one another.
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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?'