Baz Luhrmann Quotes

Historically, epics are set in Africa or Asia or the Wild West, but if you make an epic today it's hard to disassociate from the contemporary realities of those places.

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• My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think that for those of us who write, when we find a wonderful book written by someone else, we don't really get jealous, we get inspired, and that's kind of the mark of what a good writer is.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Child

• I was incredibly determined - I wrote short stories, I wrote the beginnings of novels. I wrote a little children's book and sent it to the editor-in-chief of the children's division of Simon and Schuster and she asked me to write a little children's book for a series she was doing.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Children
  • Book
  • Stories

• Do not resist a new idea. Be quietly receptive. Go along with it, even unwillingly at first. Sooner or later, it will reveal itself as your ally.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Idea
  • First
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• You have to be ready for all the games and be at 100 per cent if you want to win in this League.

  

  Eden Hazard
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  • Games

• It was really weird dealing with the media. I had no idea how to handle it.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • Weird
  • Idea
  • Media

• We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Energy
  • New
  • Research

• I retweet Amnesty International tweets a lot. It isn't just, 'This person is incarcerated unjustly.' It's also, 'This person was just released.' Those are the victories we work toward, so if we don't inform people of the victories, it does become doom and gloom.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
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  • Work
  • Victories

• All women's issues are to some degree men's issues and all men's issues are to some degree women's issues because when either sex wins unilaterally both sexes lose.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Sex

• Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didn't: It was basically a semantics game.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Game
  • Philosophy
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• It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.

  

  Eamon de Valera
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• In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

  

  Immanuel Kant
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  • Law
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• As a college student, you're depending on your scholarship money, money your parents send you. So I guess when people start talking about big figures, it doesn't hit me.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • People
  • Money
  • Parents

• We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid.

  

  Larry Niven
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  • Sea

• By and large my relations with the US were good.

  

  Hans Blix
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• I have a necklace with a golden key, given to me by my sisters, which I always wear.

  

  Karlie Kloss
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• I view my pitching on how confident I was out there, period. And if I lose that confidence, I can become a prisoner of my own mind.

  

  Barry Zito
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  • Confidence
  • Period

• Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.

  

  Eduard Hanslick
  • Music
  • Sound
  • Notes

• Politics is a good thing!

  

  Larry J. Sabato
  • Good
  • Politics
  • A Good Thing

• Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Fun
  • Movies
  • Cancer

• I know where my body's at, know how it feels, you know.

  

  Calvin Johnson
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  • Body

• That's what makes writer's block so painful. You think the well has run dry, maybe somewhere in the heavens the tap has been turned off. That's beyond frightening.

  

  Taiye Selasi
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• I'm aware of how lucky I am. Being able to make pretty good money, and get to do a lot of fun work, and at the same time I'm not besieged by photographers.

  

  John C. Reilly
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• I discovered that Thailand was one of those countries, like Sri Lanka and India, where memory of past lives used to be commonplace. Go back a few generations, and you find people talking about earlier lives with total certainty.

  

  John Burdett
  • People
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• Historically, epics are set in Africa or Asia or the Wild West, but if you make an epic today it's hard to disassociate from the contemporary realities of those places.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
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