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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. "

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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" Dancing is my obsession. My life. "

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" People dance at any age. "

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

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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 like to make my own mistakes. "

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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 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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" 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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" Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important. "

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" 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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" You see, dancers are quite mature people because they start performing so early. They become professionals when they start to take everyday classes. "

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" I - you know, I'm not an actor. "

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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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" Dancers are made, not born. "

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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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" 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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" My life has been immensely enriched by gay mentors, colleagues and friends, and any discrimination and persecution of gay people is unacceptable. "

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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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" Choreographers use me as the old guy who still dances. Not that I put on white tights. "

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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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" 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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" 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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