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Running a company is pretty demanding.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Mikhail Baryshnikov
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 27
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Ballet Dancer
Ballet Master
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Dancer
Film Actor
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Television Actor
Rīga
Mikhail Nikolayevich Baryshnikov
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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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Fundamentals are the building blocks of fun.
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What brought me to the theater, no matter you're a Jew or a Russian or Armenian or Latvian, are suddenly illuminated by stage light and one beautiful image of dance.
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I would like to go and dance in Palestine one day, with great pleasure, great pleasure.
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