[Opetaia Foa'i] brought in the melody and the lyrics, but the lyrics were in Tokelauan, and so, we talked about what it could mean and whether this could be the ancestor song. So, I started writing English lyrics to sort of the same melody.
With every word, I drop knowledge. - Lin-Manuel Miranda
With every word, I drop knowledge.
- Lin-Manuel Miranda
The distance between where I am and where I want to be seems impossibly large. - Lin-Manuel Miranda
The distance between where I am and where I want to be seems impossibly large.
If you're thinking about the idea in the shower. If you're thinking about the idea while you're walking your dog, there's probably something to it. - Lin-Manuel Miranda
If you're thinking about the idea in the shower. If you're thinking about the idea while you're walking your dog, there's probably something to it.
I had friends who only listened to hip-hop. I had friends who only listened to musicals, and I stood proudly in the middle. - Lin-Manuel Miranda
I had friends who only listened to hip-hop. I had friends who only listened to musicals, and I stood proudly in the middle.
You can't control the success or failure of a thing you work on. You can only control the thing you work on. - Lin-Manuel Miranda
You can't control the success or failure of a thing you work on. You can only control the thing you work on.
I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal trying to reach my goal. - Lin-Manuel Miranda
I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal trying to reach my goal.
The people you're turning to for advice are all people making Disney movies, so we had these amazing meetings where you'd see John Lasseter, and then… - Lin-Manuel Miranda
The people you're turning to for advice are all people making Disney movies, so we had these amazing meetings where you'd see John Lasseter, and then…
I'm past patiently waitin,' I'm passionately smashin' every expectation, every action's an act of creation. - Lin-Manuel Miranda
I'm past patiently waitin,' I'm passionately smashin' every expectation, every action's an act of creation.
I think if you want to make a recipe for making a writer, have them feel a little out of place everywhere, have them be an observer kind of all the t… - Lin-Manuel Miranda
I think if you want to make a recipe for making a writer, have them feel a little out of place everywhere, have them be an observer kind of all the t…
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