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Build us a bridge to where you are.

[BURR]
I am the one thing in life I can control.

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

(On Angelica in 'Satisfied')

Oof. Tryin' to out-Eponine Eponine up in this piece.

I only know how to write musicals.

When you smile, you knock me out, I fall apart - and I thought I was so smart.

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

You have married an Icarus;
He has flown too close to the sun

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

If there is a Busta Rhymes of musical theater, it probably is Mandy Patinkin.

To engender empathy and create a world using only words is the closest thing we have to magic.

I think Lafayette wants to rap in French now. I have to go learn some French.
Damn it, Lafayette

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

Everyday has the potential to be the greatest day of your life

I couldn't possibly write 'Next to Normal,' but God, I can weep and watch 'Next to Normal' five times.

The musicals that leave us kind of staggering on our feet are the ones that really reach for a lot.

'Rent' was the show that made me want to write. Or that showed me you're allowed to write.

I may not live to see our glory
But I will gladly join the fight
And when our children tell our story
They'll tell the story of tonight

The only shows I saw as a kid were that holy trinity: 'Les Miz,' 'Cats,' 'Phantom.'

Hey, our kid is pretty great.

Ed Koch once said that New York City is where immigrants come to audition for America. That's what happened to my parents; that's what happened to me.

[HAMILTON}
There's a million things I haven't done but just you wait.
Just you wait.

It looked like Mission Control, if NASA's business was launching rockets full of rapping multiracial actors in colonial garb into space.

Love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love cannot be killed or swept aside.

I stop wasting time on tears.
I live another fifty years.
It's not enough!

Lin beamed, and threw a couple of triumphant middle fingers in the air.

In their eyes I see you, Alexander
I see you every time

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

We love 'Fiddler.' We love 'West Side Story.' I want to be in that club. I want to be in the club that writes the musical that every high school does.

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

(Questlove) Is this the most revolutionary thing to happen to Broadway, or the most revolutionary thing to happen to hip-hop?

Pretty much anything William Shatner is in is great. He's great at playing that 'I'm the only one sane in the world' character.

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

You didn't expect these notes to turn into my therapy session, did you?

I know how deep in the DNA musicals get because they're deep in my DNA.

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

I kind of need to be ambulatory to write lyrics.

This is familiar in contemporary politics.

If Hamilton were on Twitter, he would have been a worse oversharer than me.

My father wasn't around.
I swear that I'll be around for you.

Why do you write like you're running out of time?

I'm not throwing away my shot.

How on Earth did you do that with the same 24 hours a day that everyone else gets?

Biggie and Big Pun were the best storytellers of the '90s. I would get wrapped up in the narrative of what they were talking about.

If you stand for nothing, Burr, what'll you fall for?

You know what's a great way of tricking people into thinking you're a genius? Write a show about geniuses!

The past places no absolute limit on the future.

History is so subjective. The teller of it determines it.

Look around, look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now.

Come on brain, think of things
Come on brain, think of things
Come on brain, be so smart

History is entirely created by the person who tells the story.

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.

You have no control. Who lives, who dies, who tells your story.

Raise a glass to freedom
Something they can never take away
No matter what they tell you

Death doesn't discriminate between the sinners and the saints, it takes and it takes and it takes, and we keep living anyway....

The Lord, in his kindness
He gives me what you always wanted
He gives me more-

[HAMILTON]
I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory

Everything we know about Hamilton, we knew when he was alive, because he told us.

Comma sexting. It's a thing. Get into it.

His hair has gone grey. He passes every day. They say he walks the length of the city.