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My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education – from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.

Baz Luhrmann

The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
BAZ LUHRMANN

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
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’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
One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It’s an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis.
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Acceptance Cities Multicultural
In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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Everybody Flow Flower Hair Wear
Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
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Believe Hope Patience Trust Yourself
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
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
I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
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Culture Form Thinking
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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Ballroom Fear Half Life
I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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Audience Thing Way
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
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
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

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