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" Dance is one of the most revealing art forms. "
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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" I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people. "
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" I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself. "
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" I don't want to do anything Freudian. "
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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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" Dancers are made, not born. "
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" I miss horribly those couple of hours before the performance when you get into the theater and you see people. "
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" I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant. "
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" I'm a product of Russian culture, but I never felt it was my country. "
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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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" People dance at any age. "
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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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" In '74 it was really a very gloomy atmosphere, I would say, to put it mildly. "
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" Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and after the Yalta agreement he was sent to teach in military academy in Riga, and I was born then. "
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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 know when I am on stage and I'm kind of on the right track - hopefully most of the time. But a lot of time I'm not. "
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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 am teaching more. That is what I do best. "
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" I read Russian literature a lot. "
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" In any art form, in Hollywood or in music, there is a handful of people who really, you know, move the envelope. "
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" I like to make my own mistakes. "
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" Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity. "
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" We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitchen, in two little - my brother and me and my parents. It was hell, but it was a common thing. My father was not general or admiral, but he was colonel. He was teaching in military academy military topography. "
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" You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing. "
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