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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. "

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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" I have made mistakes. "

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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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" Running a company is pretty demanding. "

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" I cannot stand authority. "

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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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" To walk across the street is a risk. "

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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 like to make my own mistakes. "

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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 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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" Astaire was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him. "

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" Nothing is ever too expensive if it furthers the repertoire and artistic standards of a dance company. "

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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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" 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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" 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 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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" Your body actually reminds you about your age and your injuries - the body has a stronger memory than your mind. "

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" No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business. "

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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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" Nobody is born a dancer. "

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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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" I am a performer. I go on stage and make a fool of myself. "

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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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" Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great. "

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" Dance is one of the most revealing art forms. "

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