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In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.

Baz Luhrmann

All good, clean stories are melodrama, it’s just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.
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Clean Shows Stories
Accept certain inalienable truths.
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Accepting Certain Inalienable Truth
The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
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Long Race Waste Your Time
I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
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Culture Form Thinking
Don’t waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind. The race is long, and in the end, it’s only with yourself
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Moving On Race Time
You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don’t think so. On my films I decide.
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Film People Thinking
I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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Always Perfect Someone Worried
Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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Chance Choices Half
At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
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Adult Age Watches
If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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Cities Light Travel
I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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Around Grow Up Jazz
Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
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Advice Hurt Save
The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It’s not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it’s about self-revelation, becoming who you are.
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Becoming Dream Duckling Ugly
My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education – from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.
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Dancing Father Magic
I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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Audience Thing Way
I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that.
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Feels Good Enough Kinship Not

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