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

Baz Luhrmann

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
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
When you’re in theater or the circus or film – to me it’s all one – affairs happen. People fall in love.
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Circus Falling Love People
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
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
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
Don’t worry about the future.
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About Future Worry
Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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Chance Choices Half
Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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Advice Form Nostalgia
I really believe musical form will go on. There’s got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
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Believe Cinema Musical
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.
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Acceptance Cities Multicultural
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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Ballroom Fear Half Life
I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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Groups Member Outsiders
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 wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.
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Enriching Jobs Thinking

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

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