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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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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As a boy, I was a member of a club run by the famous reptile showman Ross Allen, and the club sent its members pseudoscientific papers mimeographed on construction paper with a three-hole punch.
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It is completely surreal because two years ago I wasn't swimming, I was 10 kilos heavier and was on a completely different path in my life, I was still living in Sydney, I'm just so happy now.
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I was brought up to reuse things.
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Fuck that! Look at shorty, she a little cutie yo (yeah)The way she shake it make me wanna get all in the booty yo (whoo!)Top miss, just hit the bangin' bitches in videos (huh?)
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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.
