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" I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people. "
Mikhail Baryshnikov
People
Art
Government
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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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" Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great. "
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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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" You open a section of 'The New York Times,' and there's a review or a story on a choreographer or a dancer, and there's an informative, clear image of a dancer. This is, in my view, not an interesting photograph. "
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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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" I like to make my own mistakes. "
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" Nobody else in the world has a form like the Native American musical, and Americans should be very proud. "
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" I get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I'm waiting in line like everybody else. "
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Restaurant
Waiting
Ticket
" Everything I do, it's a bit painterly. I like being surrounded by objects, mostly on paper. I like the images. I like the painting. I like good photography. It's something that makes me an emotional connection, and I feel comfortable around it. "
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Me
" It's what's left in life, to work with interesting people. "
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Work
People
Left
" Running a company is pretty demanding. "
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" Nobody is born a dancer. "
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Dancer
Nobody
" Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already. "
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Dancers
Enough
Know
" 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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You
Me
Minute
" 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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Doing
Tradition
Singer
" My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War. "
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World
War
Son
" 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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Time
Go
Kind
" I miss horribly those couple of hours before the performance when you get into the theater and you see people. "
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You
See
Before
" 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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Memories
She
Remember
" 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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You
Be Happy
Family
" Although I don't gamble in life - I've never played poker - I do gamble on stage. I gamble with myself: 'Can I do this?' "
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" No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business. "
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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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Belong
Great
Organization
" When I see people on the street, I look at how they walk. It's like a signature, a fingerprint. "
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Look
See
People
" I'm an impatient person in many respects. I like to put myself in uncomfortable situations. It forces me to deliver. "
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" The more injuries you get, the smarter you get. "
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Smarter
You
Get
" Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and after the Yalta agreement he was sent to teach in military academy in Riga, and I was born then. "
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Way
Teach
" I've always said, 'I am a selector, I am not defector' - the first few phrases in English I learned. I said I hate 'defector'; something defective about the people. It's a bad word. "
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Said
I Am
Always
" I am not the first straight dancer or the last. "
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First
Last
Straight