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Working is living to me.

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 get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I'm waiting in line like everybody else.
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A theater is such a revealing form of art, such a transparent and good actors, they're such powerful individuals. I always kind of dreamt that one day I will open my mouth on stage.
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Just sit and open your eyes and open your heart. It's dance theater.
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Dances have a second and third life. You feel they are never ready. They always have a chance for another life.
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I like to go to anybody else's birthday, and if I'm invited I'm a good guest. But I never celebrate my birthdays. I really don't care.
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It's weird when you see pieces of choreography that were done for you 15 or 20 years ago and now they are being done by another dance company.
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I would like to go and dance in Palestine one day, with great pleasure, great pleasure.
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You don't measure life by receiving awards.
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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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Nobody is born a dancer.
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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 feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people.
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Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.
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What people will do to get away from boredom!
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The more injuries you get, the smarter you get.
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I am teaching more. That is what I do best.
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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 I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.
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People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.
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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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