Baz Luhrmann Quotes
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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I don't know how many people have ever seen the National Guard break in somewhere, but they mean business.
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It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous.
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My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.
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When I'm around black or white people, I'm always in the middle. Especially when I am around black people; they will really tell how they feel about white people regardless of the fact that I'm also white and have white relatives. It's very interesting and can be really hard.
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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I told my parents that I will marry any girl they choose for me. They also told me that they are open to considering any girl I choose. We were very open about it throughout.
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The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of people that are genuinely fans of your music.
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There's more to me, you know? I'm not Macaulay Culkin, 'Home Alone' kid. I'm Macaulay Culkin... actor.
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People love video games because they do things they obviously can't do in real life. That's especially true with sports games because fans love to step into the shoes of their favorite athletes.
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In the Middle Ages, I think the French kings murdered slightly fewer of their family members than the English kings, though I haven't actually counted the heads.
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Pakistan is a free country, so according to me, in a free country, it's every right of the citizen to live the way they wish.
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Playing live is everything. Sometimes being on the road is hard, and it's a lot of work, and tiring. From a musical point of view, you improve all the time. Not only that, but you learn how to deal with people and deal with energy in a live setting.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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It is important not to trust people too much.
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Houston's one of the most diverse urban areas in the entire country, and most people here are really proud of that.
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My first novel - the novel I wrote before 'Midnight's Children' - feels, to me, now, very - I mean, I get embarrassed when I see people reading it. You know, there are some people who, bizarrely, like it. Which I'm, you know, I'm happy for.
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The Dutch are a very practical people.
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I love to dance, and sing - in the shower, not in public. I'm too old to go raving, but my fondest memories are of that kind of thing - dancing, with lots of people, outside if possible.
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A lot of magic is designed to appeal to people visually, but what I'm trying to affect is their minds, their moods, their perceptions.
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We have a very old saying in our household: 'Inspect what you expect.' You hold people accountable, and I use my business background for finding the most efficient and effective solutions to deliver the result we're looking for.
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What people are really after is, what is my stance on religion or spirituality or God? And I would say, if I find a word that came closest, it would be agnostic.
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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It's like they had a backlash the first 11 years. I think the reason why it always seems like there's a backlash is because when bands are unknown, they only get written about by fans.
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You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don't think so. On my films I decide.
