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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. "
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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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 have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is. "
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" I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic plans. "
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" You see, dancers are quite mature people because they start performing so early. They become professionals when they start to take everyday classes. "
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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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" I am not trying to do material which I cannot do full out. "
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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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" In opera tradition, when opera die-hard fans, there is a replacement of singer or singer wasn't at his or hers vocal best, doing something, they boo. Especially now that they pay hundreds of dollars for the ticket. "
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" Working is living to me. "
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" I'm a news junkie. "
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" Dance is one of the most revealing art forms. "
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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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" Film, theater and television always kind of scared me. I don't ever seriously think of myself as an actor at all, and I don't plan any film career or television career. "
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" I have made mistakes. "
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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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" 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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" In the second part of life you get rid of stuff you've accumulated. "
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" I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities in Brooklyn and New Jersey. "
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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 like to make my own mistakes. "
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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 think I got disappointed over the years about New York, about the States. You know, sometimes you go and visit Europe and see good old socialism in its good part! You see public concern about art, and young people's participation and young faces in the audience. "
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" The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. "
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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 body cannot lie. You cannot be somebody else onstage, no matter how good of an actor or dancer or singer you are. When you open your arms, move your finger, the audience knows who you are, you know. "
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" I cannot draw to save my life, and I'm not a big art scholar, but I worked with many designers throughout my career - in theater, in dance, costume designers, set designers, and I have a lot of artist friends and I do photography, and I think it's kind of in my life. "
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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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