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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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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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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Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
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I am always scared before going on stage; this is the fear which makes me do well.
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I think that young Australians ought to be taking language education much more seriously. I mean, you know, every day I'm meeting people with expertise, ability and talent in fields where I want to learn so much more; science, for example.
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I am a human being. I started out with virtually nothing. I worked my way up like so many businesspeople have and made ourselves great in this country. And that is what we have to make sure we preserve for our grandchildren and future generations all the way through.
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We should change our attitude toward the United Nations. There has to be some power in the world superior to our own. We should not have attacked Iraq without the okay of the United Nations. Now we have to live with that mistake. We're living with it, and too many of our guys are dying with it.
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One with the law is a majority.
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I think with actors, if you just don't set about trying to crush their confidence immediately, you're usually OK.
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When Blur first started and we were playing Manchester the Hacienda was the place to go. That was where a lot of exciting stuff was happening and London was pretty dead.
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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.
