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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.

Baz Luhrmann

I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
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Culture Form Thinking
I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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Fashioned Mean Old
In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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Everybody Flow Flower Hair Wear
The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
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Long Race Waste Your Time
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
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
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
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
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 wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.
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Enriching Jobs Thinking
At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
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Adult Age Watches
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
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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Ballroom Fear Half Life
In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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Groovy Opera Wanted
I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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Actors Doing Good Motivated

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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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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