Baz Luhrmann Quotes
Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone's idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.
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Everything always looked better in black and white. Everything always looked as if it were the first time; there's always more people in a black and white photograph. It just makes it seem that there were more people at a gig, more people at a football match, than with colour photography. Everything looks more exciting.
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I didn't have outstanding numbers coming out of college and I'm not 6'6 with 230 lbs.
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At the age of 13, I felt it was up to me to decide whether I wanted to go to church or be with my mates, and I chose to go to church.
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In America, black urban teenagers have long been lacking in inclusion. In France, there is a comparable lack of inclusion among North Africans. In much of Europe, there has been little attempt to include the Roma.
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Gay kids need to stop killing themselves because they are made to feel worthless by cruel and relentless bullying.
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My style is all I have. When I go on stage, that's me in my comfort zone. It's not a costume. It's just me. And I want every woman to feel that way.
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Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.
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When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied it even if I had heard of it.
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For us, overseas employment addresses two major problems: unemployment and the balance of payments position.
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If I can still have Hollywood and a piece of Bollywood, I will take it.
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Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.
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It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.
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I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.
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I've always written pop songs. I tend to take inspiration from more experimental genres, like ambient music, but at the root of the song, it's verse-chorus-verse.
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My mum made me feel if I wanted to become prime minister, I could do it.
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If people want to think I'm an Indian prince, I don't want to dispel that notion.
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An actor is working steady if he's active four to six months a year.
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I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them.
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I was almost 8 years old when I was watching a kid on a TV commercial, and I told my mom that I wanted to do the same thing. She said that I would need to get an agent and that she would research it.
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I have to be smart. You cannot be going in there, trying to go forward and pressure guys, and be taking damage and getting hurt on the way to doing it.
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Mother was actually a great doer and organizer. All the special occasions were directed by mother.
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From contact comes feeling. From feeling comes reaction. This is what keeps us in the cycle of birth and death. Our reactions to our feelings are our passport to rebirth.
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Each of my books is different from the last, each with its own characters, its own setting, its own themes. As a writer, I need the variety. I sense my readers do, too.
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Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone's idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.
