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When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.

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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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Npr
Listening
Alone
Music
Without
Sometimes

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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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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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I've always said, 'I am a selector, I am not defector' - the first few phrases in English I learned. I said I hate 'defector' something defective about the people. It's a bad word.
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Acting is not my language at all.
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Nobody else in the world has a form like the Native American musical, and Americans should be very proud.
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We're trying to stretch our muscles creatively. It gives us so much more freedom.
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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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In the second part of life you get rid of stuff you've accumulated.
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People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.
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Divinity of art, it's such a mystery. How to convince people that no matter how much money you can spend on education and art education especially, that it implants, it directs a young person for the rest of their lives, and always in the most humane and positive and dignified manner.
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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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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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You cannot dance physically certain things. But look at tango dancers or flamenco or Japanese classical theater. You can, if you're smart enough and you collaborate with the right choreographers, you could really dance your age.
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I am not the first straight dancer or the last.
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Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.
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My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.
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It's what's left in life, to work with interesting people.
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There comes a moment in a young artist's life when he knows he has to bring something to the stage from within himself. He has to put in something in order to be able to take something.
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The more injuries you get, the smarter you get.
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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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