Lin-Manuel Miranda Quotes
I always had an eye toward the stage for the story of Hamilton's life, but I began with the idea of a concept album, the way Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'Evita' and 'Jesus Christ Superstar' were albums before they were musicals.
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Sometimes I like to watch TV, though I never get to watch any of the shows in real time. I'm a fan of 'Downton Abbey,' 'Boardwalk Empire,' and 'Boss.' There's a British series called 'Luther,' but in England, they think a series means four episodes. And I like 'Mad Men.' Otherwise, it's always good to unwind with a book.
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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One rose says more than the dozen.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.
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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
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Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.
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If we want to preserve Heathrow's hub status, we need to stop clogging it up with point-to-point flights to places such as Cyprus and Greece, which between them account for 87 weekly flights, and contribute nothing to overall connectivity.
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It's not healthy to be jealous.
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At the base of Ron Paul support, in my opinion, are people with brains.
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I think what's important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.
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We tend to forget in the West that the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than Al Qaeda has on its hands of innocent non-Muslims.
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Vikings were pretty brutal, but also very educated people. They were salesmen, businessmen who started raiding when business wasn't good. That's why they had such great boats.
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'Molto Mario' was the show that sparked my entire interest in cooking.
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Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.
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You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.
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I think metal and horror definitely go hand in hand. Even when you go to a horror convention and meet the fans, nine out of 10 times if they're not wearing some sort of horror shirt, they're wearing a shirt with a metal band on it.
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La Tia was fearless, but that could mean either that she had no guile or that she had no conscience.
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You don't know what's going to happen to you in the next hour. So you just live your life, live to the best of your potential, and just be happy.
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A lot of what I write is very personal.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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I always had an eye toward the stage for the story of Hamilton's life, but I began with the idea of a concept album, the way Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'Evita' and 'Jesus Christ Superstar' were albums before they were musicals.
