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" I think I'm always subconsciously trying to write the ideal school play. Lots of parts for everybody, great parts for women - don't forget, more girls try out than boys in the school play; everyone gets to be in the school play. "

Lin-Manuel Miranda

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" Everything we know about Hamilton, we knew when he was alive, because he told us. "

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Alive

" I can't say I have enough experience with Hollywood to feel that I've encountered racism there. I can tell you that I did about five fruitless years of auditioning for voiceovers where I did variations on tacos and Latin accents, and my first screen role was as a bellhop on 'The Sopranos.' "

" I kind of need to be ambulatory to write lyrics. "

" The reason 'Hamilton' works is because there is no distance between that story that happened 200-some-odd years ago and now, because it looks like America now. It helps create a connection that wouldn't have been there if it was 20 white guys on stage. "

" What 'Twilight Zone' did was show we all have a great capacity for good and evil. "

" 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. "

" I made a movie when I was 15 years old with all my friends. This is when IMDb was a little more lax with its proceedings, so it's listed as one of my projects. I was 15 years old; it's a terrible movie. I wrote 50 percent of it because I wanted to kiss this one girl, and I wrote a kissing scene for it. "

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Friends

Kiss

" You know what's a great way of tricking people into thinking you're a genius? Write a show about geniuses! "

" 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. "

" History is so subjective. The teller of it determines it. "

" I couldn't possibly write 'Next to Normal,' but God, I can weep and watch 'Next to Normal' five times. "

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Watch

Write

" One of my first favorite books was 'The 12 Days of Christmas,' and I would just go up to people and say, 'I can sing 'The 12 Days of Christmas,' and I would make them sit through me reciting it, and I'd go all the way, each time. I've always hooked into lyrics. "

" A lot of the reason the Universal version of 'Heights' went away is that they were afraid they didn't have a big enough Latino star to bankroll this movie. The people I dealt with at the studio who wanted to make this movie were very passionate about it. "

" If there is a Busta Rhymes of musical theater, it probably is Mandy Patinkin. "

" Sometimes a line enters your head, and you're so grateful for it. You go online to check to see if anyone wrote it before you. You must have stolen it. "

" The fun for me in collaboration is, one, working with other people just makes you smarter; that's proven. "

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Collaboration

Fun

" Biggie and Big Pun were the best storytellers of the '90s. I would get wrapped up in the narrative of what they were talking about. "

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Pun

Narrative

" 'West Wing' was huge. Like 'Hamilton,' it pulls back the curtain on how decision-making happens at the highest level, or at least how you hope it would be. The amount of information Aaron Sorkin packs into a scene gave me this courage to trust the audience to keep up. "

" If Hamilton were on Twitter, he would have been a worse oversharer than me. "

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Been

Than

" My only responsibility as a playwright and a storyteller is to give you the time of your life in the theatre. I just happen to think that with Hamilton's story, sticking close to the facts helps me. All the most interesting things in the show happened. "

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Responsibility

Time

" When I was asked to do a song from 'In the Heights' at the White House in 2009, I chose instead to do 'Alexander Hamilton' because I felt like I was meeting a moment. "

" I like the quiet it takes to pursue an idea the way I pursued 'Hamilton,' but I couldn't write a book, because there's no applause at the end of writing a book. "

" Anytime you write something, you go through so many phases. You go through the 'I'm a Fraud' phase. You go through the 'I'll Never Finish' phase. And every once in a while you think, 'What if I actually have created what I set out to create, and it's received as such?' "

" The musicals that leave us kind of staggering on our feet are the ones that really reach for a lot. "

" Because of the success of 'Hamilton' and 'On Your Feet!' you can't hide behind the old argument of, 'It needs to be bankable, so we can't put all these people of color in the show.' We are bankable. "

" I only know how to write musicals. "

" In 'Hamilton,' we're telling the stories of old, dead white men, but we're using actors of color, and that makes the story more immediate and more accessible to a contemporary audience. "

" Making words rhyme for a living is one of the great joys of my life... That's a superpower I've been very conscious of developing. I started at the same level as everybody else, and then I just listened to more music and talked to myself until it was an actual superpower I could pull out on special occasions. "

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Great

Life

" What's incredible about 'Hamilton,' and the reason you can't get a ticket, is because everyone's responding to it. Everyone is seeing a bit of themselves in it. "

" We've had characters like Trump in American politics forever, characters who trade on xenophobia. "