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Baz Luhrmann

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
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
Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
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Advice Birth Patient
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
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
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 food in Sydney is an Asian Pacific cuisine. It’s eclectic but above all it’s fresh, inventive and creative and that’s what I love about it.
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Asian Creative Cuisine
It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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Hard Manhattan Mugged
I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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Around Grow Up Jazz
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
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
In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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Groovy Opera Wanted
Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
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Dream Ends Life Live
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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Ballroom Fear Half Life
Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.
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Chemistry Stars Two

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