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- Nov 07, 2020
Doing Quotes
On action, effort and the discipline of doing the work.
These lines describe doing in its many forms: the overlap between film and television production, the uncertainty built into research, and committing to work you believe in even without much recognition. For more, see our Action quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
How that works is our first season was the year we had a threatened writers' strike, so what we did was that instead of doing 22 episodes, we did 30. We put 10 in the bank.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always learning from experiences because each one is different and there are different players involved in the project at the time with their own way of doing things.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm bad at doing what I'm told. I'm a born free thinker.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just want to keep doing things completely different from the other. I just want to keep working with great people, great filmmakers and great actors and just building on that experience.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, what would I be doing if I couldn't write? But that fortunately hasn't proved to be the case and I can read any day. I still read a lot, and I can write any day, but much more slowly and fewer words.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
That brick that you're standing on, that foundation that you're standing on, there's a brick in there that was placed by someone you never knew, sort of a faceless possibility, but you're there now. You have an opportunity to put your own brick in there. That's what it feels like we're doing with 'Hamilton'
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was doing 'In the Heights,' I was the co-music supervisor for 'The Electric Company' on PBS, so I was writing songs all day, doing the show, staying up until 3 A. M. Writing more songs, recording demos in the intermission in my dressing room.
- Nov 07, 2020
After doing so many different roles, if you don't stretch yourself, there's no excitement left.
- Something
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to do something active everyday. Liking what you're doing makes working out enjoyable.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
But 'Hey Dude' was shot in Arizona, and that took me to the West Coast. We did 65 episodes. It was not a show that a ton of people saw, so it was like doing acting classes and getting paid for it. At that point I had the acting bug. So I went to L.A. to give it a try and never left.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Hey Dude' was shot in Arizona, and that took me to the West Coast. We did 65 episodes. It was not a show that a ton of people saw, so it was like doing acting classes and getting paid for it. At that point I had the acting bug. So I went to L.A. to give it a try and never left.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need a Congress that cares more about doing the people's business than their own.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020