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When I see people on the street, I look at how they walk. It's like a signature, a fingerprint.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Mikhail Baryshnikov
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 27
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Mikhail Nikolayevich Baryshnikov
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