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You don't measure life by receiving awards.

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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It doesn't matter how high you lift your leg. The technique is about transparency, simplicity, making an earnest attempt.
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My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.
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People dance at any age.
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I don't try to dance better than anybody but myself.
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Acting is not my language at all.
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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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Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.
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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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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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The more injuries you get, the smarter you get.
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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 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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It's weird when you see pieces of choreography that were done for you 15 or 20 years ago and now they are being done by another dance company.
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He [Astaire] was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him.
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I never liked dance photography it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived.
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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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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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You see, dancers are quite mature people because they start performing so early. They become professionals when they start to take everyday classes.
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A theater is such a revealing form of art, such a transparent and good actors, they're such powerful individuals. I always kind of dreamt that one day I will open my mouth on stage.
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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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