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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
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
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
The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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Auditions Cold Process
Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone’s idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.
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Ideas Needs Path
Don’t worry about the future.
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About Future Worry
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
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
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
Everything I make starts very personally.
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Everything Make Personally Start
I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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Fashioned Mean Old
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
Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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Chance Choices Half
I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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Actors Doing Good Motivated

It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.

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