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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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The Russian people get so insanely close to each other as friends. Their lives are interrelated so much on an everyday basis.
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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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You cannot dance physically certain things. But look at tango dancers or flamenco or Japanese classical theater. You can, if you're smart enough and you collaborate with the right choreographers, you could really dance your age.
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My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.
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When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.
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Acting is not my language at all.
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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 cannot stand authority.
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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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