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People dance at any age.
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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My father was a Party member and he was a pretty high rank military officer under the colonel, junior colonel, I don't know the term. He was a total Stalinist. A bit with a streak of anti-Semitism and very shrewd man, a very kind of nervous man.
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I adored my mother, and I will always have extraordinary memories about her and remember her, and she opened the doors for me to appreciate arts.
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You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.
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Dance is an ephemeral, a fleeting art. To describe this momentum, every movement on stage, in words is virtually impossible.
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I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities in Brooklyn and New Jersey.
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I was never like, collect, collect, like people who go to auctions. I never spent a serious amount of time because I don't have any time!
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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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You don't measure life by receiving awards.
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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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I cannot stand authority.
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I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.
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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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