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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.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Mikhail Baryshnikov
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 27
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