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.

  

  Dan Bucatinsky
  • Work
  • Love
  • Talent

• There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Me
  • Nothing

• 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.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Enjoy
  • Look
  • Limit

• Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.

  

  Sam Peckinpah
  • Why
  • You
  • Interview

• 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.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Kids
  • Control
  • Best

• 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.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Up
  • She
  • Age

• There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Choices
  • Nothing
  • Unlimited

• 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.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Life
  • Different
  • Opportunity

• Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Old
  • Italian
  • Saying

• 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.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • School
  • Home
  • Friends

• 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.

  

  Barry Diller
  • World
  • Run
  • Strategy

• 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.

  

  Banks
  • Music
  • Men
  • Mind

• I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Important
  • Responsibility
  • Celebrity

• In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

  

  Quintilian
  • Experience
  • More
  • Precept

• If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Powerful
  • Blind
  • Deaf

• One of my dreams is to walk down the runway during Fashion Week!

  

  Zendaya
  • Fashion
  • Dreams
  • Week

• Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.

  

  Ednita Nazario
  • Music
  • Country
  • Rock

• Fly-fishing is really addictive.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Fly
  • Really
  • Fishing

• We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Great
  • Humility
  • Come

• Up to our own day American history has been in a large degree the history of the colonization of the Great West. The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward, explain American development.

  

  Frederick Jackson Turner
  • Up
  • Great
  • American

• Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.

  

  Owen Arthur
  • Good
  • Great
  • Service

• In the early to mid-'90s, everywhere I turned, someone had died. It wasn't just people in bands. It was the people I was hanging out with. At some point, I thought, 'I may be heading down that road.'

  

  Dave Gahan Depeche Mode
  • People
  • May
  • Road

• Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it. I was going to be a lawyer, but I got saved.

  

  Alan Dean Foster
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  • Why
  • Science

• I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Great
  • Me
  • Creativity