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" It's what's left in life, to work with interesting people. "

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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" I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There is no such thing. "

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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 would like to go and dance in Palestine one day, with great pleasure, great pleasure. "

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" I have made mistakes. "

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

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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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" 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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" When I see people on the street, I look at how they walk. It's like a signature, a fingerprint. "

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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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" 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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" To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what you're doing in life-in my case, dancing. "

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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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" I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities in Brooklyn and New Jersey. "

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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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