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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

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
Western films don’t do very well in India.
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Film India Wells
In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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Groovy Opera Wanted
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
It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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Hard Manhattan Mugged
Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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Advice Form Nostalgia
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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Ballroom Fear Half Life
If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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Cities Light Travel
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
Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
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Believe Hope Patience Trust Yourself
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
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
I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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Creative Fundamental Process
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 mean the future has become old fashioned.
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Fashioned Mean Old
My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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Facts Stories Wife

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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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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