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The fun for me in collaboration is, one, working with other people just makes you smarter; that's proven.

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I grew up in an immigrant neighborhood. We just knew the rule was you're going to have to work twice as hard.

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What's incredible about 'Hamilton,' and the reason you can't get a ticket, is because everyone's responding to it. Everyone is seeing a bit of themselves in it.

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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?'

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What 'Twilight Zone' did was show we all have a great capacity for good and evil.

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In 'Hamilton,' we're telling the stories of old, dead white men, but we're using actors of color, and that makes the story more immediate and more accessible to a contemporary audience.

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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.'

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

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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.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: January 16th, 1980

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