Lamplighters are the guys who manually turned on all the street lamps in London and turned them off. … - Lin-Manuel Miranda

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Twitter is about creating whatever persona you want to create and either sticking with it or changing it or evolving it or contradicting it, and I've done all that stuff.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Lamplighters are the guys who manually turned on all the street lamps in London and turned them off. That was the gig in the 1930s in London.

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