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All good, clean stories are melodrama, it’s just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.

Baz Luhrmann

A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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Ballroom Fear Half Life
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’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
I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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Around Grow Up Jazz
My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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Facts Stories Wife
Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
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Dream Ends Life Live
I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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Fashioned Mean Old
In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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Groovy Opera Wanted
I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
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Culture Form Thinking
The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
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Long Race Waste Your Time
I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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Actors Doing Good Motivated
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
Western films don’t do very well in India.
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Film India Wells
Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
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Believe Hope Patience Trust Yourself
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
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

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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