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" I would like to go and dance in Palestine one day, with great pleasure, great pleasure. "
Mikhail Baryshnikov
One Day
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" Running a company is pretty demanding. "
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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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" I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" Dancing is my obsession. My life. "
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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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" It's weird when you see pieces of choreography that were done for you 15 or 20 years ago and now they are being done by another dance company. "
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" Your heart is very much connected to your mind. "
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" No matter what I try to do or explore, my Kirov training, my expertise, and my background call me to return to dancing after all, because that's my real vocation, and I have to serve it. "
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" I'm a product of Russian culture, but I never felt it was my country. "
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" I miss horribly those couple of hours before the performance when you get into the theater and you see people. "
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" 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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" Dancers are made, not born. "
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" Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered. "
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" I don't drink milk, and I don't eat bread, pasta or rice. But I eat a lot of meat, chicken, fish and salads. "
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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 found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world... it pushed me to think of things bigger than life's daily routines... to think beyond what is immediate or convenient. "
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" I've been hurt quite a few times. "
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" I know when I am on stage and I'm kind of on the right track - hopefully most of the time. But a lot of time I'm not. "
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" I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is. "
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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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" Working is living to me. "
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" 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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" People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience. "
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" I don't go to a gym, I don't do yoga. I don't do personal training. "
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" It's what's left in life, to work with interesting people. "
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