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In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.

Baz Luhrmann

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.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Becoming Dream Duckling Ugly
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Ballroom Fear Half Life
The food in Sydney is an Asian Pacific cuisine. It’s eclectic but above all it’s fresh, inventive and creative and that’s what I love about it.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Asian Creative Cuisine
I wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.
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Enriching Jobs Thinking
I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Around Grow Up Jazz
At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
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Adult Age Watches
I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Culture Form Thinking
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
In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn’t make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.
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Intriguing Mechanic Stories
When you’re in theater or the circus or film – to me it’s all one – affairs happen. People fall in love.
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Circus Falling Love People
Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.
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Country Far Away World
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
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Beauty Enjoy Power Youth
To be honest, there is a tourists’ trail; my family had a farm and a gas station, and you can go and see my birthplace, though where I lived is actually under a freeway now.
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Gas Honest Stations Tourists
Western films don’t do very well in India.
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Film India Wells
If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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Cities Light Travel
Having grown up far, far away in a small country town in Australia, I was only slightly aware of hip-hop.
BAZ LUHRMANN

Country Hip Hop Slightly

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