Rory O'Malley To watch Lin Manuel Miranda… you could not make a better spokesperson for Broadway in a laboratory. – Rory O’Malley
Rajiv Ouseph In countries like China and Indonesia, badminton is like a religion. Players get mobbed in the street. In China, it is a national sport, and Lin Dan, their star player, is treated like David Beckham. – Rajiv Ouseph
Phillipa Soo Hamilton’ is, of course, closely tied to the Obamas because Lin first performed the opening number at a White House poetry jam. – Phillipa Soo
Phillipa Soo I didn’t know anything about Eliza when I first got the call about ‘Hamilton.’ Tommy Kail, the director, asked me if I wanted to be a part of it. I knew what he was talking about because I’d seen the video of Lin performing it at the White House for Barack and Michelle Obama. – Phillipa Soo
Michelle Yeoh Wai Lin is the first Bond Girl who is on a par with Bond, someone who can match up with him mentally and physically. From the moment our characters see each other, there is a wariness and a recognition that this person is not who she or he seems to be. – Michelle Yeoh
Lin Dan Before I turned 30, through a lot of hard work and support, I won many badminton titles. But after turning 30, Lin Dan should change that mindset and start in a new direction and do things that are more meaningful. – Lin Dan
Lil B Sometimes you don’t go straight from high school or college and get to the NBA from there. Sometimes you have to go when you’re a little bit older and try that other route like Jeremy Lin. And he made it. – Lil B
Judith Tarr The Seventies were an interesting time to be a reader or writer of fantasy. Tolkien was the great master. Lin Carter was resurrecting wonders of British and American fantasy from the early twentieth century in his Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series. – Judith Tarr
Jennifer Hyman In early 2011, I had the opportunity to meet and spend significant time with Alfred Lin, a partner at Sequoia Capital and co-founder of Zappos. – Jennifer Hyman
Eric Liu Jeremy Lin is the only Asian American in the NBA today and one of the few in any professional U.S. sport. His arrival is surely leading other talented Asian American athletes this week to contemplate a pro career. – Eric Liu
Eric Liu There have been, in recent years, many Asian American pioneers in the public eye who’ve defied the condescendingly complimentary ‘model minority’ stereotype: actors like Lucy Liu, artists like Maya Lin, moguls like Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh. They are known, often admired. – Eric Liu
Elvis Mitchell Justin Lin, the writer and director of the teenage-wasteland drama ‘Better Luck Tomorrow,’ a shrewdly tense piece of storytelling, recognizes that sometimes it’s good for a filmmaker to stir up trouble. – Elvis Mitchell
