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Just sit and open your eyes and open your heart. It's dance theater.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Mikhail Baryshnikov
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 27
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Ballet Dancer
Ballet Master
Choreographer
Dancer
Film Actor
Performing Artist
Television Actor
Rīga
Mikhail Nikolayevich Baryshnikov
Dance
Theater
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Heart
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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 get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I'm waiting in line like everybody else.
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What do dancers think of Fred Astaire? It's no secret. We hate him. He gives us a complex because he's too perfect. His perfection is an absurdity. It's too hard to face.
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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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I cannot stand authority.
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Nobody is born a dancer.
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I would like to go and dance in Palestine one day, with great pleasure, great pleasure.
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My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.
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The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep.
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