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If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.

Baz Luhrmann

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
Don’t worry about the future.
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About Future Worry
In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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Everybody Flow Flower Hair Wear
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
I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it’s my own.
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May Point Of View Views
I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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Always Perfect Someone Worried
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
Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
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Advice Birth Patient
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
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
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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Becoming Dream Duckling Ugly
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
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 understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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Actors Doing Good Motivated
In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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Groovy Opera Wanted

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