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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
Actor
Ballet Dancer
Ballet Master
Choreographer
Dancer
Film Actor
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Television Actor
Rīga
Mikhail Nikolayevich Baryshnikov
Boredom
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Divinity of art, it's such a mystery. How to convince people that no matter how much money you can spend on education and art education especially, that it implants, it directs a young person for the rest of their lives, and always in the most humane and positive and dignified manner.
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I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people.
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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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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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I don't go to a gym, I don't do yoga. I don't do personal training.
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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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I don't try to dance better than anybody but myself.
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I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There is no such thing.
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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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I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying.
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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!
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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 never liked dance photography it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived.
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I would like to go and dance in Palestine one day, with great pleasure, great pleasure.
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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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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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People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.
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