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It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.

Baz Luhrmann

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
Everything I make starts very personally.
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Everything Make Personally Start
Western films don’t do very well in India.
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Film India Wells
The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
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Long Race Waste Your Time
Don’t worry about the future.
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About Future Worry
I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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Fashioned Mean Old
My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education – from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.
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Dancing Father Magic
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
Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.
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Country Far Away World
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
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
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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Ballroom Fear Half Life
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
It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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Hard Manhattan Mugged
My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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Facts Stories Wife
I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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Always Perfect Someone Worried

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