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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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I never liked dance photography it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived.
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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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Nothing is ever too expensive if it furthers the repertoire and artistic standards of a dance company.
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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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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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Acting is not my language at all.
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Fundamentals are the building blocks of fun.
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The Russian people get so insanely close to each other as friends. Their lives are interrelated so much on an everyday basis.
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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 think I got disappointed over the years about New York, about the States. You know, sometimes you go and visit Europe and see good old socialism in its good part! You see public concern about art, and young people's participation and young faces in the audience.
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My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.
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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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It's what's left in life, to work with interesting people.
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I don't drink milk, and I don't eat bread, pasta or rice. But I eat a lot of meat, chicken, fish and salads.
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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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Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already.
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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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I am not the first straight dancer or the last.
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