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

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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" I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world... it pushed me to think of things bigger than life's daily routines... to think beyond what is immediate or convenient. "

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

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