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" Nobody else in the world has a form like the Native American musical, and Americans should be very proud. "
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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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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" I'm a news junkie. "
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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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" 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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" Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important. "
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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 am not the first straight dancer or the last. "
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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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" I like to make my own mistakes. "
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" I miss horribly those couple of hours before the performance when you get into the theater and you see people. "
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" In the second part of life you get rid of stuff you've accumulated. "
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" I have made mistakes. "
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" I - you know, I'm not an actor. "
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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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" I know when I am on stage and I'm kind of on the right track - hopefully most of the time. But a lot of time I'm not. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" The body cannot lie. You cannot be somebody else onstage, no matter how good of an actor or dancer or singer you are. When you open your arms, move your finger, the audience knows who you are, you know. "
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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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" Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity. "
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" I read Russian literature a lot. "
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" Dance is one of the most revealing art forms. "
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" I'm a product of Russian culture, but I never felt it was my country. "
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" I would like to go and dance in Palestine one day, with great pleasure, great pleasure. "
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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 think I got disappointed over the years about New York, about the States. You know, sometimes you go and visit Europe and see good old socialism in its good part! You see public concern about art, and young people's participation and young faces in the audience. "
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