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I am teaching more. That is what I do best.

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 problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep.
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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 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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I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.
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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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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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You don't measure life by receiving awards.
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To walk across the street is a risk.
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Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.
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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 do dancers think of Fred Astaire? It's no secret. We hate him. He gives us a complex because he's too perfect. His perfection is an absurdity. It's too hard to face.
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You can be totally involved, you could admire just the shape of or you could be totally emotionally mushed up into the dance.
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People dance at any age.
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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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I would like to go and dance in Palestine one day, with great pleasure, great pleasure.
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You invest into the future, and that's how young people become human in best sense of it - through the great experience of listening a Müller symphony or to see a great play by Tennessee Williams, experience something in a ballet, in a film.
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My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.
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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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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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