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" I have the life of seven cats. "

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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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 spend at least a couple hours a day in the studio, every day, whether I'm dancing or not. "

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" When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR. "

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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 made mistakes. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" Choreographers use me as the old guy who still dances. Not that I put on white tights. "

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" I would like to go and dance in Palestine one day, with great pleasure, great pleasure. "

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" I cannot stand authority. "

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" I go a lot to see young people downtown in little theaters. It's great. If you start somebody's career, it's so exciting. "

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