Lin-Manuel Miranda Quotes
What I learned from my go-round with 'In the Heights' is that it's tough to make a movie. In Hollywood, even the people in charge have people in charge.
Quotes to Explore
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.
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When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.
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You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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In life go straight and turn right.
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I think that what I'd like to instil is that if you join the youth theatre, it's a gateway into greater career prospects.
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Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
Garry Kasparov -
The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
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I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.
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I've always been drawn to the idea that small choices in our lives could have drastic effects on our future.
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I wouldn't overestimate the importance of my popularity in the country and abroad but at the end of the day it's not as important because I believe that my presence here could make some difference and it could encourage people.
Garry Kasparov -
I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.
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'Radioactive' is the fall out of my life's inspirations, a testament to my ability to survive it all and to tell the story.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.
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I was able to do well for myself, make a statement in the league. I had a heck of a time doing it, but at the end of the day, it's about me and my family and being comfortable and being fun.
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People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.
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I basically try to give people top quality.
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I want to be the best daughter and wife and friend and person I can be. And I want to help empower the people around me to be the best they can be.
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People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.
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Wanted: a man who is larger than his calling, who considers it a low estimate of his occupation to value it merely as a means of getting a living.
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What I learned from my go-round with 'In the Heights' is that it's tough to make a movie. In Hollywood, even the people in charge have people in charge.
