Baz Luhrmann Quotes
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I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.'
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Whatever life lesson I'm going through at any point in my life, projects just somehow magically appear that help me work through it.
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No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear.
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By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.
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In reality, throughout your career, you have to make yourself interesting enough for people to be waiting to see your films. In my case, people are longing to see what I come out with next. That's my success.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.
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At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.
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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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Polka dots can't stay alone. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots, we become part of the unity of our environments.
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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
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African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
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It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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I prefer film to TV because of the amount of time film affords you that TV doesn't (though theater is probably my favorite and the scariest place of all).
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The best programmers and internet entrepreneurs are in the Bay Area. Don't kid yourself about that, not even for a second.
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Be adorable always to each other; respect is everlasting.
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You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south.
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It is our job to ensure everyone feels included and empowered. We are living in a world that is increasingly diverse, and part of helping kids develop and be those successful leaders of tomorrow is helping them learn how to embrace multiculturalism and diversity.
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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
