Lin-Manuel Miranda Quotes

Pretty much anything William Shatner is in is great. He's great at playing that 'I'm the only one sane in the world' character.

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• I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Great
  • Depression
  • Obsessed

• If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • Kids
  • Light

• I like to wear shoes that are cool but also practical. The same goes for bags. Your bag is a big deal in New York. You can't just carry around a little clutch, because you don't have a car or anywhere to stash things during the day, so you need to carry your whole life with you. That's why I like big, chunky bags with lots of compartments.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Life
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• I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Music
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• NASA should start thinking about this planet.

  

  Wally Schirra
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  • NASA

• When you have a limited resource and you have a lot of people wanting that resource, then those who get more justify as to why they got more, and those who get less say they have been treated badly.

  

  Kapil Sibal
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• I'm not the type of person that is forced.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
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• I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.

  

  Samantha Shannon
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• Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Democracy
  • Spring
  • Hell

• I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.

  

  Bayard Taylor
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• The Bay of Bengal is hit frequently by cyclones. The months of November and May, in particular, are dangerous in this regard.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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  • November

• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
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  • Go

• Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.

  

  Zig Ziglar
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• I come from a theater background, and if you're doing a play, your audience is right there, and you're able to have that one-on-one experience. Doing more TV now, when fans come up to me on the street and talk to me on social media, that's a way to bridge that gap.

  

  Samira Wiley
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• If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.

  

  Jack Welch
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• My parents wanted me to be a teacher. Because I could work most of the year and pursue the things that I love to do during the summer. It just seemed like a good plan.

  

  Kate Micucci
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• I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Long
  • Me

• When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
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• I think that you just understand, as any creative person, that there's a beast that you have to beat, and it never goes away. I've resigned myself to that, and it's kind of what keeps you going. Writing is the worst and the best.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Writing

• Reverse-engineer Hollywood is how I think of it. All the social-media stars are going in the back door, and everyone's trying to get in the front - there's a line outside. And then everyone's trying to sneak around back, but then there's security, you know? That's an analogy, I guess.

  

  Jake Paul
  • Trying
  • Door

• I'm very nervous when I work in a film and very relaxed before a live audience. I like theater because it's more of an actor's medium. You can control your performance. In film you depend on the director to watch out for your ass, but in the theater you can take care of yourself.

  

  Christopher Walken
  • Work
  • Live
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• There's no shortage of orphans in 19th-century literature, but it's hard to find a single happy, communicative, functional parental relationship in the whole of 'Great Expectations,' even among the minor characters.

  

  David Nicholls
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• Pretty much anything William Shatner is in is great. He's great at playing that 'I'm the only one sane in the world' character.

  

  Lin-Manuel Miranda
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