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.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Related Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX How we experience memory sometimes, it's not linear. We're not telling the stories to oursel... FRANK OCEAN We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. ... BRADLEY WHITFORD We're all going to keep telling love stories, we're all going to tell hero stories. It's... ANDREW STANTON About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo... PETER LERANGIS You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only... RICK RIORDAN In the South, we tell stories. We tell stories if you're in a sales position, if you're in a... TATE TAYLOR When you're a storyteller, part of the process of storytelling is the kind of communion you form... CARLTON CUSE We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ... RICK RIORDAN In 'Snow White and the Hunstman,' when we see them in the Dark Forest, you're allowed a ... EVAN DAUGHERTY When you're editing, you're putting it together in a way that makes sense metaphysically. Yo... D. A. PENNEBAKER When we're in that kind of childish space, we're more genuine and feel more comfortable with... EVAN SPIEGEL The brain needs to have a story; it needs to have a logical screenplay telling where we're comin... MIGUEL NICOLELIS Part of doing good work is caring deeply about it, believing in what you're doing, and getting i... ARI GRAYNOR Alas, I think I am becoming a god. TITUS Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. LUCAN I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate. LUCAN Marvel does a fantastic job about bringing human stories - because you're telling big stories wi... MIKE COLTER Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying. We decide to go out walking the wh... TEGAN QUIN Climate change is one of those stories that deserves more attention, that we all talk about, but we ... JEFF ZUCKER What we're doing with Band of Brothers is trying to put it into human terms, so it is not just a... TOM HANKS It's a strange thing that we're actors, and we're always playing a character, and then s... RACHEL BROSNAHAN Country music is all about telling stories, and we're just telling a little different one. TAYLOR DYE Actors have to stay optimistic. The moment we start thinking otherwise, we're dead. PETER O'TOOLE I'm so happy that we're finally hearing the stories and voices of women who make America. We... GLORIA STEINEM Safeco Field is a lot like a National League park. Because of that, we're more of a pitching-def... PAT GILLICK You hear stories about directors using manipulation to get actors to do certain things, but I think ... DARREN ARONOFSKY We're going through the Olympics. We're watching women working as teams. We're watching ... PATRICIA SCHROEDER We're trying to tell a very full story of 'Nashville' and these characters in Nashville,... CONNIE BRITTON I think all these pop cultural media often reflect conversations we're having in the real world ... G. WILLOW WILSON Quest stories are about the oldest form of narrative there is, and they're also the perfect meta... SIMON TOYNE Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way." "Funny name for an aircraft... GORDON KORMAN I'm equally guilty of using technology - I Twitter, I text people, I chat. But I think there'... JASON REITMAN Both men and women are really vast and boundless and yet in many films we're told that they'... JASON RITTER Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN But, you know there's a lot of westerns - not that they were bad - it's just that they can b... TOM SELLECK I'm from Indiana. I know what you're thinking, Indiana... Mafia. But in Indiana it's not... JIM GAFFIGAN Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. SENECA Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. SENECA We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. SENECA Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take... SENECA Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. SENECA Luck is where opportunity meets preparation. SENECA Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures. SENECA I enjoy journalism; anybody does. You see the results immediately; you've got an immediate audie... ANTHONY BURGESS Is France a completely open market to G.E.? No, of course not. I think we're more discerning abo... JEFFREY R. IMMELT We're telling the story of 'Daredevil'. In this aspect, the storylines accentuate the so... ELODIE YUNG Because of the success of 'Hamilton' and 'On Your Feet!' you can't hide behind t... LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA It's also that comedians don't have the kind of narcissism that actors have. They're wri... RACHEL WEISZ When you're still in the broadcast business, you're still trying to reach tens of millions. ... WARREN LITTLEFIELD Whatever it is, if you draw, you paint, you're a carpenter, you play football, the more you do i... TOM SIZEMORE Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us... AARON STANFORD Modeling is one of the few professions where women out-earn men, and that's because we're mo... CAMERON RUSSELL When you're making under-million-dollar films, it becomes so much about actors' availability... ADAM RAPP Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing mor... PAM GRIER We've been using vaccination in some form for hundreds of years now. We have almost nothing in o... EULA BISS When you have really good writing, you're compelled by the actors who are in it, and you may thi... DAVID COSTABILE The beauty of science fiction is that it takes the audience's guard down; they're much more ... DUNCAN JONES I enjoyed my upbringing, my siblings did, we're polite, we're respectful, but at the end of ... TINIE TEMPAH If you're a writer, you know that the stories don't come to you - you have to go looking for... TOM WAITS Tyria's a big world. We get a grand tour in 'Ghosts of Ascalon.' We're in Divinity... JEFF GRUBB Because when they strike it can be that quick that if they're within range, you're dead, you... STEVE IRWIN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES If you're white and you're wrong, then you're wrong; if you're black and you're ... BOB MARLEY Life doesn't discriminate Between the sinners and the saints It takes and it takes and it ... LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA I tell my staff, we're riding a tour bus around, and we're going to stop and look at some we... CHRIS MATTHEWS People in life take on certain stories and say, 'I'm going to be defined by this story and I... STANA KATIC This is not the story of Elektra from the comics. We're telling the story of 'Daredevil.'... ELODIE YUNG Google that, 'old white men,' and you'll find that comes out of the mouths of liberals i... STEVE KING When you're telling stories, you are actually trying to illuminate some portion of the truth in ... CHRISTOPHER MOORE I see my role as a translator, telling the story that's in the book using the more visual langua... JANE GOLDMAN When you're young, all the accidents, all the pain you take them, but at least you're very s... CAROLE BOUQUET My grandmother had flawless skin just from using basic skincare - an old herbal remedy in the form o... MICHELLE YEOH We're African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we're like the Jac... BEYONCE KNOWLES Why do you think the fans like us - why they prefer our street raps over all that phony stuff out th... EAZY-E It's the moms of this nation - single, married, widowed - who really hold this country together.... ANN ROMNEY What we are doing is, rather than living on the interest of our basic biological capital, we're ... DAVID SUZUKI Quite simply, we're re-telling the very first adventures of 'Daredevil', as originally s... ANTONY JOHNSTON We're so lucky where we live, but we're so out of touch. Everyone's mindset is made to f... SONNY BILL WILLIAMS More and more what we're licensing, we're licensing on a global basis - even though the stud... TED SARANDOS In movies we tend make things black and white: you're either this, or you're that. BILL SKARSGARD Television, particularly as it becomes more and more serialised, comedies no longer have to tie the ... RON HOWARD It's kind of hard in politics to forget that you're a Democrat or a Republican and remember ... RALPH HALL Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. W... WALTER CRONKITE Starting out, they told me: 'You're a good-looking guy. We'll put you in this role, and ... SAM WORTHINGTON You're a smaller fish in the U.S. There's just so many more TV shows, and actors, and actres... INDIA DE BEAUFORT The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL In terms of 'Beyond the Lights' and 'Belle,' they're definitely stories about id... GUGU MBATHA-RAW You're assisting the audience to understand; you're giving them a bridge or an access. And i... JIM HENSON I think it's linked to the realisation that we're not going to live forever and that the way... JOHN MCGAHERN And my point was one I think that you'd agree with, which is there's no room in America for ... NEWT GINGRICH The way people communicate is changing, and no one knows this better than teens. We are using images... KEVIN SYSTROM I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan. BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES
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CARMEN MIRANDA More affectionate than a kiss is a well done hug in someone that you love. Have you ever notice how ... CARMEN MIRANDA Look at me and tell me if I don't have Brazil in every curve of my body. CARMEN MIRANDA Most shows find themselves descending into sentimentality or earnestness at some point but, with ... MIRANDA RAISON I love entertaining people and making them laugh. It's my favorite thing to do. MIRANDA COSGROVE It's a career that's enticing because you go on stage, for example, and people clap. You get... MIRANDA OTTO I had a similar match last year against Harvard and pulled it out as we won 5-4, so I was thinking a... MIRANDA RANIERI The whole theatre world deeply attracts me. I love rehearsing and having time to make mistakes and l... MIRANDA OTTO Everyone has things that they don't love about themselves but I think that as a woman its much h... MIRANDA KERR While it's nice to appreciate the fashion world... what makes you happy are real relationships a... MIRANDA KERR My mom is a really good cook. I didn't get the cooking gene, but she cooks this really amazing d... MIRANDA COSGROVE Being tall when I was youngerl I was always a bit awkward. As a teenager, I was very, very thin, so ... MIRANDA HART I want to be more physical and theatrical within the stand-up. There might be dance moments, and peo... MIRANDA HART I like working intensely, then going away and thinking about it, working out why it didn't work ... MIRANDA OTTO It's a vicious circle. If you feel hideous, you convey it to people. A couple of male friends fr... MIRANDA HART Acting is a freelance career... you never stop having to prove yourself and fight for work. MIRANDA OTTO Thrumpton Hall can be thought of as a venerable old lady, ageing gracefully. But I didn't always... MIRANDA SEYMOUR An erratum is a correction inserted into a book after publication. It's a nice thing to collect ... MIRANDA JULY I have always thought of comedy as an important job and medium, and so I put pressure on myself to d... MIRANDA HART My parents are private investigators for God's sake. MIRANDA LAMBERT We're more of a family style restaurant. ADRIAN MIRANDA I don't necessarily wait for that massive leading role. I want to keep the juices flowing. MIRANDA RICHARDSON Junk food drags you down. MIRANDA LAMBERT I'm quite a confident person in many ways, but there's only so much you can hear about being... MIRANDA HART I got stuck up a tree when I was about seven, and my dad had to come and get the ladder to get me do... MIRANDA KERR I always feel this huge responsibility to the script when it arrives, keeping it confidential. MIRANDA OTTO I think I find new idols every day - someone that says something really inspiring, is successful, ha... MIRANDA LAMBERT When I write, I wear earplugs. I don't want to be self-conscious. I don't want to be thinkin... MIRANDA JULY Somebody referred to me as a ringleader, which I wouldn't have classed myself as, but anyway, there ... MIRANDA RICHARDSON It makes me feel resilient when you tackle different things. MIRANDA RICHARDSON I live by the 80/20 rule: I'm 80 percent healthy, and then 20 percent indulgent. MIRANDA KERR And there's no way I'm going to do Dame Edna. MIRANDA RICHARDSON We humans are here because nothing can be perfect. There always have to be some living things that a... MIRANDA JULY I choose to live by choice, not by chance; to make changes, not excuses; to be motivated, not manipu... MIRANDA MARROTT It's good to see a man who isn't afraid to live out his masculinity. MIRANDA OTTO The smoke was very thick. I could hardly breathe. I helped (other) people out (of the building). ANTHONY MIRANDA Compacting has been a major issue for a long, long time, and it's up to the membership to decide on ... ANTHONY MIRANDA We may never land because of the central core issue that tribes are sovereigns. ANTHONY MIRANDA They just basically want to change the rules. This affects an entire industry where tens of millions... ANTHONY MIRANDA Now, more than ever, it's vital, absolutely vital, that tribal leaders walk the halls of Congress th... ANTHONY MIRANDA My end goal in the piano is to play Scott Joplin's 'Maple Leaf Rag.' MIRANDA LEEK