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I am not the first straight dancer or the last.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Mikhail Baryshnikov
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 27
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Ballet Dancer
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Film Actor
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Mikhail Nikolayevich Baryshnikov
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The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep.
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I cannot stand authority.
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I don't try to dance better than anybody but myself.
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Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.
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I like to go to anybody else's birthday, and if I'm invited I'm a good guest. But I never celebrate my birthdays. I really don't care.
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I never liked dance photography it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived.
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Although I don't gamble in life - I've never played poker - I do gamble on stage. I gamble with myself: 'Can I do this?'
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Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.
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When I see people on the street, I look at how they walk. It's like a signature, a fingerprint.
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I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people.
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In the second part of life you get rid of stuff you've accumulated.
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My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.
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Acting is not my language at all.
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