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Kendra Oliveira

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You are what you love not who loves you

never forget

the actor who plays Philip Schuyler (Eliza’s father, Hamilton’s father-in-law) also plays James Reynolds. he basically gives Hamilton permission to marry Eliza, but also to cheat on her.

Burr: My dreams were shattered years ago.
Alexander: How many years ago?
Burr: When did you come to America again?

How It Actually Happened #27

Hamilton: Burr, you're a better lawyer than me.
Burr: We all know this but please, go on.

How It Actually Happened #28

Hamilton: John should have shot him in the mouth, that would've shut him up.
Burr: *furiously scribbling notes* go on?
Hamilton: Well, if it isn't Aaron Burr, sir! I didn't think that you would make it!
Burr: To be sure!
Lafayette, Laurens, Mulligan: Burr?
Burr: I came to say congratulations. You have invented a new kind of stupid. A damage-you-can-never-undo kind of stupid. An open-all-the-cages-in-the-zoo kind of stupid. A truly-you-didn't-think-this-through kind of stupid.

I just noticed a pattern in the names of the female characters in Lin’s musicals:

Eliza, Nina, Angelica, Vanessa, Daniela, Maria, Carla, Claudia, Camila

…and Peggy.

I wanna see how far this goes I have faith in Tumblr

How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore

And a Scotsman dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot in the Caribbean by providence impoverished in squalor, grow up to be a hero and a scholar?

The ten dollar founding father

Without a father, got a lot farther

By working a lot harder, by being a lot smarter, by being a self-starter; by fourteen, the placed him in charge of a trading charter.

and every day, while slaves were being slaughtered and carted away

across the waves, he struggled and kept his guard up

inside, he was longing for something to be a part of

The brother was ready to beg, steal, borrow, or barter

Then a hurricane came, and devastation reigned, our man saw his future drip, dripping down the drain

Put a pencil to his temple and he wrote his first refrain, a testament to his pain

Well, the world got around, they said “This kid is insane, man”

Took up a collection just to send him to the mainland

And the record won’t stop skipping And the lies just won’t stop slipping And besides my reputation’s on the line We can fake it for the airwaves Force our smiles, baby, half dead From comparing myself to everyone else around me

Fall Out Boy, I’ve Got a Dark Alley and a Bad Idea That Says You Should Shut Your Mouth (Summer Song)