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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!
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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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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I don't go to a gym, I don't do yoga. I don't do personal training.
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People dance at any age.
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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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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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It doesn't matter how high you lift your leg. The technique is about transparency, simplicity, making an earnest attempt.
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It's what's left in life, to work with interesting people.
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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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People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.
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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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When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.
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Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered.
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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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When I see people on the street, I look at how they walk. It's like a signature, a fingerprint.
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Nobody else in the world has a form like the Native American musical, and Americans should be very proud.
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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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I don't try to dance better than anybody but myself.
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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'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.
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