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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

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
I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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Groups Member Outsiders
I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
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Culture Form Thinking
At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
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Adult Age Watches
The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it.
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Art Country Deal Lost People
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
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Beauty Enjoy Power Youth
I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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Always Perfect Someone Worried
Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
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Dream Ends Life Live
If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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Cities Light Travel
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
In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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Groovy Opera Wanted
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
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
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
Don’t worry about the future.
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About Future Worry
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

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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