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" I don't go to a gym, I don't do yoga. I don't do personal training. "
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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" I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just interested in everything and she took me to opera and ballet, and then ballet got me hooked. "
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" I fell in love with New York. It was like every human being, like any relationship. When I was a young New Yorker, it was one city. When I was a grown man, it was another city. I worked with many dance organizations and many wonderful people. "
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" I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist doctrines and you were hassled all the time with members of the Party committee who were KGB, what you have to do, where in the West you can go or not to go. "
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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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" 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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" Your body actually reminds you about your age and your injuries - the body has a stronger memory than your mind. "
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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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" My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War. "
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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 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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