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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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Television Actor
Rīga
Mikhail Nikolayevich Baryshnikov
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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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To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices.
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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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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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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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I adored my mother, and I will always have extraordinary memories about her and remember her, and she opened the doors for me to appreciate arts.
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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 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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Just sit and open your eyes and open your heart. It's dance theater.
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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 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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When I see people on the street, I look at how they walk. It's like a signature, a fingerprint.
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Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.
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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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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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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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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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Fundamentals are the building blocks of fun.
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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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