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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

Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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Advice Form Nostalgia
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
Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
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Advice Birth Patient
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
The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
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Long Race Waste Your Time
I don’t have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I’ve never fought with any actor ever.
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Actor Fighting Honesty
Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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Chance Choices Half
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
Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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Book Growing Passion Up
Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
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Believe Hope Patience Trust Yourself
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
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
I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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Creative Fundamental Process
There’s a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to engage them in a discussion. I listen.
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Directors Hollywood Speak
I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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Groups Member Outsiders
Everything I make starts very personally.
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Everything Make Personally Start

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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