I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
BAZ LUHRMANNI 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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I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it’s my own.
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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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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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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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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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Fitzgerald coined the phrase the ‘Jazz Age,’ and now we’re living in the Hip-Hop Age.
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Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
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I am always worried when someone says, ‘This is perfect.’
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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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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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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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It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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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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Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
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