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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Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume.
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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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The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.
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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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I admit that the direct model has done a lot for Dell. That's the only thing the company has ever really accomplished.
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I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin.
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A lot of people don't even listen to albums start to finish, but I do - for sure.
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We all have our own little thing, I think.
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Can I bite you here, 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.
