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When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Mikhail Baryshnikov
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 27
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Ballet Dancer
Ballet Master
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Film Actor
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Rīga
Mikhail Nikolayevich Baryshnikov
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People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.
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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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Working is living to me.
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What brought me to the theater, no matter you're a Jew or a Russian or Armenian or Latvian, are suddenly illuminated by stage light and one beautiful image of dance.
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Running a company is pretty demanding.
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We're trying to stretch our muscles creatively. It gives us so much more freedom.
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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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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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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 really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There is no such thing.
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Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.
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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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It doesn't matter how high you lift your leg. The technique is about transparency, simplicity, making an earnest attempt.
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The more injuries you get, the smarter you get.
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You can be totally involved, you could admire just the shape of or you could be totally emotionally mushed up into the dance.
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Acting is not my language at all.
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Just sit and open your eyes and open your heart. It's dance theater.
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I cannot stand authority.
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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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