Baz Luhrmann Quotes
I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.
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I would love to be a singer if I had the talent for it. I'd love to be a graphic designer if I had the talent for it. Those are things I've always just admired - the work of other artists.
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There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.
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Sometimes, it's best to let the kids take control - and it's never too early to instill positive eating habits or self-confidence in the kitchen.
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The fun thing about doing origin stories is you are introducing the audience to characters.
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Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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Your life, your circumstances change, and you have to continue to grow as a person, and once you have means and opportunity, you have to make different choices to protect what you have.
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I don't think about whether it's gonna be a dance record or a ballad or anything when I'm making music. I sit in the studio and I think, 'How am I feeling today?' and I write how I feel. It's really, really simple.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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When I was a kid, I would come home from school, throw my bag, go out to play. My daughter comes home from school, throws her bag, goes to play, but sitting in front of the computer because their definition of play has changed. They don't go out to play. They play on the computer with their friends.
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The world is changing. Networks without a specific branding strategy will be killed. I envision a world of highly niched services and tightly run companies without room for all the overhead the established networks carry.
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It's a big theme throughout my music to just embrace everything about your own mind and to always feel powerful. It's not just a feminine thing, but for men, too, whether they feel weak, or strong or crazy or reclusive. I want everyone to feel powerful no matter what little beasts they have in their head.
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I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.
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If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.
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Bryan Adams might not be what I want to put on, but he's a pop singer with a great voice and great guitar tone. Plus, he's done more for Canada than Rush have, because he works all the time. I envy him for that.
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While my friends were outside practising to be Tony Hawk or Michael Jordan, I was inside playing Mozart, increasingly disillusioned and bored.
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I would love to go to the Last Supper and become a fly on the wall to hear what was said and see what went on.
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I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.
