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What people will do to get away from boredom!
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Mikhail Baryshnikov
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 27
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Ballet Dancer
Ballet Master
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Dancer
Film Actor
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Television Actor
Rīga
Mikhail Nikolayevich Baryshnikov
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Boredom
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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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I don't go to a gym, I don't do yoga. I don't do personal training.
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Working is living to me.
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In the second part of life you get rid of stuff you've accumulated.
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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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Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.
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Dance is an ephemeral, a fleeting art. To describe this momentum, every movement on stage, in words is virtually impossible.
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People dance at any age.
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Running a company is pretty demanding.
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Nobody is born a dancer.
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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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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 mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.
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Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.
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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 am not the first straight dancer or the last.
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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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I don't try to dance better than anybody but myself.
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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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