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

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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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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