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In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.

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
The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.
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Long Race Waste Your Time
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
In the ’60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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Everybody Flow Flower Hair Wear
Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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Chance Choices Half
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
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
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Beauty Enjoy Power Youth
Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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Advice Form Nostalgia
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
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
Everything I make starts very personally.
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Everything Make Personally Start
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
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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Ballroom Fear Half Life
I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
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Culture Form Thinking
I wouldn’t take a directing job if I didn’t think it was enriching life.
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Enriching Jobs Thinking
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

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