Lin-Manuel Miranda Quotes
I couldn't possibly write 'Next to Normal,' but God, I can weep and watch 'Next to Normal' five times.
Quotes to Explore
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The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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Only four secretaries of defense served longer than Robert M. Gates. Many others were as dedicated; many sacrificed a great deal. Alone among them all, however, Mr. Gates had the task of turning around two wars that the U.S. was losing.
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The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.
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I think 'Trial & Retribution' as a brand can go on forever. Its joy is that it has, to an extent, a formula, which gives a comfort routine for viewers. But we allow our directors total autarchy in putting their personalities on their stories.
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It's easy for me to care about Toronto, because Toronto is a community that cares about itself. It represents the world. It talks to itself, and because it does, it figures out that there must be a music garden as part of its existence.
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For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
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I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.
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Typically, if you buy a studio with a library, their library is pretty well licensed out many years in advance, so you are not really gaining access to the programming in that way.
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My mother was a cleaning lady all her life.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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Married at 23, a mother at 24, and blindsided by divorce at 28, I found myself struggling, like many young women I meet today, to strike a balance between my personal life and my career.
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I arrived in the U.S.A. in 1935, to San Francisco. I got the boat from China, and I didn't even speak English. I could read a little, perhaps write a little, but that was all. It was a 17-day journey, and I learnt to speak English from the stewards.
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If Kate Moss hadn't been booked when she was 14, Kate Moss might not exist.
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Make-up is all about shading; it's about tactical application.
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I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.
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Breast-feeding does not belong in the realm of facts and hard numbers; it is much too intimate and elemental.
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Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
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You'd only write what you know and what you know is what you do and the people you know. So you'd write about them or the people you have met casually. It's part of your life.
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Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
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Almost every time we get together with family or friends, the conversation ends up being about food.
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No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
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I am unable, mentally incapable, of relating the dead thing, the broken body refusing to divulge why or where the occupant has gone, to the thing that was alive.
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I couldn't possibly write 'Next to Normal,' but God, I can weep and watch 'Next to Normal' five times.
