Lin-Manuel Miranda Quotes
The only other thing that's like video games for me is watching tennis on TV. I can have it on, and there's a rhythmic quality to it - I can be watching Wimbledon or the U.S. Open and still be working.
Quotes to Explore
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The situation is quite serious - groundwater is important source for water use, including drinking water, and if it gets contaminated, it's very costly and difficult to clean.
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All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
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It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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The militia had the same equipment as the military to protect them against the tyrannical government. It's more important today than ever that we uphold our Second Amendment.
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Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.
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The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.
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I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time.
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I write my songs and just play them, so there are not a whole lot of fireworks. As long as the music comes first, it's OK to have some fireworks. But not the other way around.
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My interviewing style and my approach to things is that, yes, it's okay to be sincere; it's okay to be yourself; it's okay to be real.
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Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.
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I definitely don't see myself as much of a singer, because my upbringing is really based around the guitar, learning chord progressions and that sort of thing. So the singing aspect of what I do has been a secondary adventure.
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There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.
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I was so sure I wanted to be a novelist. I would spend hours and hours every day writing. Little stories about nothing in particular. I recall one about someone with an illness. But my dedication wasn't really healthy, and it reached the point where I wasn't sleeping. My mum would tell me, 'You need to go outside to get some fresh air.'
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For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to... 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don't have one of those.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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I demand a lot from myself and reflect this attitude upon others: I consider it to be an important quality for a leader. I also think it is impossible to achieve success without persistence.
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The quality of films out there depends on how much responsibility we're willing to take. I try to play women who are positive and heroic.
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I think of being ornate as a Victorian quality, little to do with Shakespeare. But even Dickens wasn't ornate; he wrote with flow and naturalism.
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Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness. It lends grace to the sterner qualities of which this consists.
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The only other thing that's like video games for me is watching tennis on TV. I can have it on, and there's a rhythmic quality to it - I can be watching Wimbledon or the U.S. Open and still be working.
