22 Quotes & Sayings By Linmanuel Miranda

[WASHINGTON]It’s alright, you want to fight, you’ve got a hunger I was just like you when I was younger Head full of fantasies of dyin’ like a martyr?[ H A M I L T O N] Yes[ W A S H I N G T O N] Dying is easy, young man. Living is harder LinManuel Miranda

I know my sister like I know my own mind, you will never find anyone as trusting or as kind. LinManuel Miranda

The past places no absolute limit on the future. LinManuel Miranda

Time alone is the gift of self-entertainment - and that is the font of creativity LinManuel Miranda

You are perfectly cast in your life. I can't imagine anyone but you in the role. Go play. LinManuel Miranda

Love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love cannot be killed or swept aside. LinManuel 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 have created what I set out to create, and it’s received as such? LinManuel 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 until they're finished songs and start to play. When senseless acts of tragedy remind us that nothing here is promised--not one day. This show is proof that history remembers. We live in times when hate and fear seem stronger. We rise and fall and light from dying embers--remembrances that hope and love last longer. And love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love cannot be killed or swept aside. I sing Vanessa's symphony. Eliza tells her story. Now, fill the world with music, love, and pride. LinManuel Miranda

Love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love, cannot be killed or swept aside. LinManuel Miranda

[ELIZA]You and your words flooded my senses, your sentences left me defenseless. You built me palaces out of paragraphs, you built cathedrals. LinManuel Miranda

Why do you write like you're running out of time? LinManuel 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 into a scene gave me this courage to trust the audience to keep up. LinManuel 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'd go all the way, each time. I've always hooked into lyrics. LinManuel Miranda

I grew up in an immigrant neighborhood. We just knew the rule was you're going to have to work twice as hard. LinManuel 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 listened to more music and talked to myself until it was an actual superpower I could pull out on special occasions. LinManuel 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. LinManuel Miranda

History is so subjective. The teller of it determines it. LinManuel 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 point at and say, 'That's what my life experience looks like' - I can't think of any off the top of my head besides Jimmy Smits in 'Mi Familia.' LinManuel Miranda

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