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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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" 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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" 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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" In any art form, in Hollywood or in music, there is a handful of people who really, you know, move the envelope. "

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" I never liked dance photography; it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived. "

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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 have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is. "

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" I've been hurt quite a few times. "

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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 kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography. "

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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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" 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 not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying. "

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" Nobody is born a dancer. "

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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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