“ I grew up in an immigrant neighborhood. We just knew the rule was you're going to have to work twice as hard. Lin-Manuel Miranda
“ My wife's the reason anything gets done, she nudges me towards promise by degrees. She is a perfect symphony of one our son is her most beautiful reprise. We chase the melodies that seem to find us un… Lin-Manuel Miranda
“ I think Lafayette wants to rap in French now. I have to go learn some French.Damn it, Lafayette. Lin-Manuel Miranda
“ In the best works of fiction, there's no mustache-twirling villain. I try to write shows where even the bad guy's got his reasons. Lin-Manuel Miranda
“ [ELIZA]You and your words flooded my senses, your sentences left me defenseless. You built me palaces out of paragraphs, you built cathedrals. Lin-Manuel Miranda
“ You are perfectly cast in your life. I can't imagine anyone but you in the role. Go play. Lin-Manuel Miranda
“ Ron told Pippa that during the six years he had spent on the book, Valerie Chernow had developed a powerful identification with Hamilton’s wife. She used to say, ‘Eliza is like me: She’s good, she’s t… Lin-Manuel Miranda
“ We've had characters like Trump in American politics forever, characters who trade on xenophobia. Lin-Manuel Miranda
“ Love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love cannot be killed or swept aside. Lin-Manuel Miranda
“ I don't differentiate between black and Latino actors. We're in the same struggle to be represented in a way that's even close to honest. And I can tell you that the amount of Latino characters I can… Lin-Manuel Miranda
“ Time alone is the gift of self-entertainment - and that is the font of creativity Lin-Manuel Miranda
“ '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… Lin-Manuel Miranda
“ 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 listen… Lin-Manuel Miranda
“ 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… Lin-Manuel Miranda
“ I was having a drink with Hugh Laurie, with whom I’d worked on his series House, and I told him I wanted to write a breakup letter from King George to the colonies. Without blinking, he improv’d at me… Lin-Manuel Miranda
“ 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 ha… Lin-Manuel Miranda
