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" In the second part of life you get rid of stuff you've accumulated. "

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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" Dancers are made, not born. "

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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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" Nobody else in the world has a form like the Native American musical, and Americans should be very proud. "

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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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" 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 am not the first straight dancer or the last. "

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" My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War. "

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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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" 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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" People dance at any age. "

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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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" To walk across the street is a risk. "

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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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" 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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" I get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I'm waiting in line like everybody else. "

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" A country like Belgium, or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States, which is a really puzzling thought. "

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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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" I have made mistakes. "

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