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It's what's left in life, to work with interesting people.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Mikhail Baryshnikov
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 27
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Mikhail Nikolayevich Baryshnikov
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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 kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.
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To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices.
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Acting is not my language at all.
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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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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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I get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I'm waiting in line like everybody else.
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Perfection is a theory. You cannot be a perfect human being, perfect artist. You cannot be a perfect husband, you cannot be a perfect father probably and probably I am not. But go through your daily routine with hope you will be a little better in all respects, and do something meaningful
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Fundamentals are the building blocks of fun.
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You don't measure life by receiving awards.
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You invest into the future, and that's how young people become human in best sense of it - through the great experience of listening a Müller symphony or to see a great play by Tennessee Williams, experience something in a ballet, in a film.
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I am not the first straight dancer or the last.
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I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying.
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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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I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities in Brooklyn and New Jersey.
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