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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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Ballet Dancer
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Rīga
Mikhail Nikolayevich Baryshnikov
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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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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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Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.
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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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People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.
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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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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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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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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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My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.
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