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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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Just sit and open your eyes and open your heart. It's dance theater.
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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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I would like to go and dance in Palestine one day, with great pleasure, great pleasure.
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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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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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My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.
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The more injuries you get, the smarter you get.
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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 don't drink milk, and I don't eat bread, pasta or rice. But I eat a lot of meat, chicken, fish and salads.
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Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.
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Acting is not my language at all.
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The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep.
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Running a company is pretty demanding.
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What people will do to get away from boredom!
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To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices.
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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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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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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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Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered.
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Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.
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