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People dance at any age.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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Mikhail Baryshnikov
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 27
Actor
Ballet Dancer
Ballet Master
Choreographer
Dancer
Film Actor
Performing Artist
Television Actor
Rīga
Mikhail Nikolayevich Baryshnikov
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People
Dance
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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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The more injuries you get, the smarter you get.
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People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.
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To walk across the street is a risk.
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Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.
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When a body moves, it's the most revealing thing. Dance for me a minute, and I'll tell you who you are.
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Running a company is pretty demanding.
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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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I would like to go and dance in Palestine one day, with great pleasure, great pleasure.
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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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Acting is not my language at all.
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Nobody is born a dancer.
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It doesn't matter how high you lift your leg. The technique is about transparency, simplicity, making an earnest attempt.
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It's what's left in life, to work with interesting people.
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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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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 kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.
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Perfection is a theory. You cannot be a perfect human being, perfect artist. You cannot be a perfect husband, you cannot be a perfect father probably and probably I am not. But go through your daily routine with hope you will be a little better in all respects, and do something meaningful
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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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Working is living to me.
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