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Working is living to me.
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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I cannot stand authority.
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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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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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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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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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Nothing is ever too expensive if it furthers the repertoire and artistic standards of a dance company.
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He [Astaire] was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him.
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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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You don't measure life by receiving awards.
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I am teaching more. That is what I do best.
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Running a company is pretty demanding.
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People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.
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People dance at any age.
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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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I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.
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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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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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