Quote by Baz Luhrmann (about Paris, Sydney)

Quote by Baz Luhrmann (about Paris, Sydney)

If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.

Baz Luhrmann

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Sydney is rather like an arrogant lover. When it rains it can deny you its love and you can find it hard to relate to. It's not a place that's built to be rainy or cold. But when the sun comes out, it bats its eyelids, it's glamorous, beautiful, attractive, smart, and it's very hard to get away from its magnetic pull.

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The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it.

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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.

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Sydney in general is eclectic. You can be on that brilliant blue ocean walk in the morning and then within 20 minutes you can be in a completely vast suburban sprawl or an Italian or Asian suburb, and it's that mix of people, it's that melting pot of people that give it its vital personality.

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The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.

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The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

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Solitude & Loneliness

He looked at her the way all women wanted to be looked at by a man.

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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

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Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.

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All right... I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool--that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

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Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.

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I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.

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Curiosity Falling in love

Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

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And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

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It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.

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Gatsby turned out all right in the end. It is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.

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They say money can't buy happiness. But it can book your flight to Sydney - which is kinda the same.

You can leave Sydney, but it will never leave you.

So you're single? In Paris? Now I'm even more jealous. I mean, your life is croissants and sex.

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Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

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