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" I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography. "
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Modern
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" Your heart is very much connected to your mind. "
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" Running a company is pretty demanding. "
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" I am not the first straight dancer or the last. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" I cannot stand authority. "
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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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" 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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" I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself. "
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" I would like to go and dance in Palestine one day, with great pleasure, great pleasure. "
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" When a body moves, it's the most revealing thing. Dance for me a minute, and I'll tell you who you are. "
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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've been hurt quite a few times. "
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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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" 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'm a product of Russian culture, but I never felt it was my country. "
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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 don't see in myself any perfection. "
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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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" 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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" 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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