Baz Luhrmann Quotes
I've tried to make 'Strictly Ballroom' impossible to date. It does feel a bit '80s but I consciously made sure there was no technology in the movie that could date it.
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Superheroes are best imagined in comic books. The union between the written word, the image, and then what your imagination has to do to connect those allows for so much.
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I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.
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I went through a lot in middle school, and you always try so many different looks and try to be so many different people. I finally realized I'm awkward, I'm lanky, and I'm going to embrace it - make fun of myself and just laugh.
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I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play.
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There's something scary about acting always, because basically you do all this work in a vacuum, and then suddenly there's a lot of money spent making a film, and there's suddenly a camera here, going, 'Right? What are you gonna do?'
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Maybe now that we have the same sponsor in Remington we can spend some time together outdoors.
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A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.
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It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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I'm not much of a jokester.
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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In the future I think the labels on most pop music are going to go. Everyone keeps jumping into everyone else's space.
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The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.
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One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.
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It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary.
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To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.
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When I was 20, I thought I was 30 - but I was so far from it. When you're young, you want everything to happen now. As you mature, you can look back and see all the great things you achieved with time and patience.
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A lot of the former Idols were voting for me, and that makes me feel really good.
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A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers.
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Being general manager is like being the de facto owner. It's like wearing the crown of 'Restaurant Man' without being 'Restaurant Man.' You're trying to run the business, but you're running the ranch without riding the big horse.
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There is a lot of waste in government-run programs generally, and a lot of waste and fraud and misuse of money in Medicare and Medicaid that can be saved.
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I've tried to make 'Strictly Ballroom' impossible to date. It does feel a bit '80s but I consciously made sure there was no technology in the movie that could date it.
