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Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.

Baz Luhrmann

Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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Book Growing Passion Up
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
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
Don’t waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind. The race is long, and in the end, it’s only with yourself
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Moving On Race Time
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 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
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
Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.
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Chance Choices Half
I don’t have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I’ve never fought with any actor ever.
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Actor Fighting Honesty
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
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
I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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Groups Member Outsiders
I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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Fashioned Mean Old
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
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Beauty Enjoy Power Youth
My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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Facts Stories Wife
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

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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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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