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" I think people understand I'm not actually the real Thomas Jefferson. "
Daveed Diggs
Understand
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" At some point, I'll do more McDonald's commercials if I have to. "
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" I have all of Kendrick Lamar on vinyl. "
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" Being on stage, I know my function. I just do the thing. "
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" My mom is a white Jewish lady, and my dad is black. The cultures never seemed separate - I had a lot of mixed friends. When I was young, I identified with being Jewish, but I embraced my dad's side, too. "
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" I didn't aspire to be on Broadway. "
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" Daveed Diggs is a very nervous person. "
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" That's the great thing about how 'SVU' works. They work with so many Broadway actors, they are very used to getting us out in time for the show. "
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" Acting is about finding truth and finding the way to convey the truth. "
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" We're very used to seeing a huge diversity of white people. You never just expect two white people on TV to feel the same way. "
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" I get to say 'no' to a lot of things. That, for an artist, is crazy. "
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" I think rappers spend a lot of time trying to figure out what is new. 'How can I say this in a way that no one has ever said it before?' "
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" To be rapping in a musical on Broadway is just - that sentence doesn't make any sense in my brain. "
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" I majored in theater. I did plays. But musicals were not my thing. "
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" It wasn't until I got out in the world and started worked professionally when I realized that the people I admired were the ones who had taken the little snippets of what they learned that worked for them - and strung them together in their own technique. "
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" As a kid, I was very shy. "
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" I'm an artist, so days don't start on any regular time. "
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Artist
" Writing is writing. It is all about telling stories, and I've been doing that for so long, in all realms, that it all feels like the same thing to me anyway. "
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" I went to Hebrew school but opted out of a bar mitzvah. "
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" Writing rap songs is about flow, about one word blending seamlessly into the next and creating a thing that is possible to perform in a way that feels natural. "
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" Recording vocals has the same kind of physical demands as you experience a lot in theater work. "
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" That's what hip-hop is - it's about meeting the music where you are, and then you add on top of that. It's about coming at it with your full self. "
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Meeting
You
Top
" I'm from the Bay Area, so I know a lot about granola. "
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Know
Bay Area
Bay
" All the way on the West Coast, never having seen a Broadway show, it was like, 'They don't want me. There's nothing there for me.' I'd come to New York a lot and never even tried to see a Broadway show. There was no reason for me to do that. "
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" I have this thing. I can rap really fast. I can rap really, really fast. It's a thing I'm good at and I've trained myself to do; it's a thing I do in the Bay Area. "
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" The way we make history exciting to learn about is by breaking down the barriers that are already set up between these people. "
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