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One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It’s an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis.

Baz Luhrmann

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
Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
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Advice Hurt Save
Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
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Dream Ends Life Live
Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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Chance Choices Half
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
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
Accept certain inalienable truths.
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Accepting Certain Inalienable Truth
Everything I make starts very personally.
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Everything Make Personally Start
Having grown up far, far away in a small country town in Australia, I was only slightly aware of hip-hop.
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Country Hip Hop Slightly
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.
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Asian Creative Cuisine
The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
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Long Race Waste Your Time
Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
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Believe Hope Patience Trust Yourself
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 feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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Groups Member Outsiders
Fitzgerald coined the phrase the ‘Jazz Age,’ and now we’re living in the Hip-Hop Age.
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Age Hip Hop Phrases
I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
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Culture Form Thinking
It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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Hard Manhattan Mugged
Western films don’t do very well in India.
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Film India Wells
When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
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Country Drama Grow Up
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
Don’t worry about the future.
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About Future Worry
I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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Actors Doing Good Motivated
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
One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I’ve seen it three times, is Bondarchuk’s ‘War and Peace.’ Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era.
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People Three War
I feel funny about owning art. I don’t really want to say: “Wow, come and see my Monet – it’s in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.”
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Art Bottom Cellar Dark Want
Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don’t manage that – but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.
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Cinema Excitement Needs
I’ve always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether it’s the tumultuous relationship between Rhett and Scarlett or Lawrence of Arabia’s passion to get lost in a faraway place.
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Epic Passion Simple

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