Manuel Miranda
Manuel Miranda
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Roberts has soaked up the white male seat.
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I think the president is going to have to nominate a woman or Hispanic or an African American, and that probably the situation (with Hurricane Katrina) is such that an elevation makes good sense now.
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will rightly think that she is certainly unqualified.
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If he did that, he would reduce the numbers of the people who continue to support him.
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And I think there are folks in the White House ready to receive that pitch,
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I'm honored to have been chosen as a fellow of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. I am hugely appreciative for the support I have had throughout my life, and I look forward to using the grant to help institutions that have fed my soul and to support new work that inspires me.
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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.
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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.
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I like to separate the music- and lyric-writing processes if I can. I'll sort of noodle around on my keyboard and my computer until I have a beat or a chord progression, I'll record it as a loop, export it to iTunes, then walk around with the loop and sort of talk to myself in the loop, and that's how I get the lyrics.
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We love 'Fiddler.' We love 'West Side Story.' I want to be in that club. I want to be in the club that writes the musical that every high school does.
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The only shows I saw as a kid were that holy trinity: 'Les Miz,' 'Cats,' 'Phantom.'
If there is a Busta Rhymes of musical theater, it probably is Mandy Patinkin.
Everything we know about Hamilton, we knew when he was alive, because he told us.
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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.