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I am the epitome of coolness.
I am not throwing away my shot.
I got to holler just to be heard.
With every word, I drop knowledge.
I only know how to write musicals.
Disney's really incredible on story.
Sebastian, en Español, is a bad ass name.
My kid gets me out of bed in the morning.
The theater should always be a safe space.
No one wants to hear me crooning a ballad.
I will lay down my life if it sets us free.
We get the job done. So what happens if we win?
The problem is I got a lot of brains but no polish.
Don't be shocked when your history book mentions me.
I probably shouldn't brag, but dag I amaze and astonish.
I'm just like my country. I'm young, scrappy and hungry.
History is so subjective. The teller of it determines it.
Everyday has the potential to be the greatest day of your life
I wouldn't give a performer something I couldn't deliver myself.
The fact that I'm a performer helps me enormously as a lyricist.
My power of speech, unimpeachable. Only 19 but my mind is older.
Well, hello. My name is Lin. But if you're dyslexic, call me Nil.
My sister is as responsible for anyone for giving me good taste in music.
I have been working on this movie [Moana] since before Hamilton happened.
We sort of quickly realized every rhythm, Opetaia [Foa'i] takes the lead.
I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal trying to reach my goal.
I liked writing the negative ads more than - because it's more minor chords.
If there is a Busta Rhymes of musical theater, it probably is Mandy Patinkin.
The distance between where I am and where I want to be seems impossibly large.
Everything we know about Hamilton, we knew when he was alive, because he told us.
What 'Twilight Zone' did was show we all have a great capacity for good and evil.
Once George Washington said, "I have to step down the so the country can move on."
The only shows I saw as a kid were that holy trinity: 'Les Miz,' 'Cats,' 'Phantom.'
I got to fall in love. I got to win a war. I got to write words that inspired a nation.
It's an enormous relief to go to work and be an actor and not be worried about writing.
If you think in terms of topping, you're in the wrong business. You can't think that way.
The music you love when you're a teenager is always going to be the most important to you.
'Rent' was the show that made me want to write. Or that showed me you're allowed to write.
I'm just like my country, I'm young, scrappy and hungry, and I'm not throwing away my shot.
My rhymes are gonna kill, so I suggest you write your will and leave your [expletive] to me.
I've had a little Hollywood experience, and there's nothing like the Disney story experience.
I just remembered when I was an adolescent girl wanting to leave my island and find my calling.
We've had characters like Trump in American politics forever, characters who trade on xenophobia.
The musicals that leave us kind of staggering on our feet are the ones that really reach for a lot.
I couldn't possibly write 'Next to Normal,' but God, I can weep and watch 'Next to Normal' five times.
It was a real dream come true just to get the job [in Moana], and yeah, and we sort of got right to work.
The fun for me in collaboration is, one, working with other people just makes you smarter; that's proven.
You know what's a great way of tricking people into thinking you're a genius? Write a show about geniuses!
I'm past patiently waitin,' I'm passionately smashin' every expectation, every action's an act of creation.
You can't control the success or failure of a thing you work on. You can only control the thing you work on.