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

Baz Luhrmann

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
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
If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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Cities Light Travel
So, what is creative freedom? We can make what we want, how we want. The only constraint is: not for any budget.
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Constraint Creative Want
I feel funny about owning art. I don’t really want to say: “Wow, come and see my Monet – it’s in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.”
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Art Bottom Cellar Dark Want
Fitzgerald coined the phrase the ‘Jazz Age,’ and now we’re living in the Hip-Hop Age.
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Age Hip Hop Phrases
My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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Facts Stories Wife
Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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Advice Form Nostalgia
The cold-audition process is not a science, so I ignore that.
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Auditions Cold Process
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 grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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Around Grow Up Jazz
Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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Chance Choices Half
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
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
Trust yourself that you can do it and get it
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Believe Hope Patience Trust Yourself
I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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Actors Doing Good Motivated

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