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" Nothing is ever too expensive if it furthers the repertoire and artistic standards of a dance company. "
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Company
Dance
Nothing
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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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" In opera tradition, when opera die-hard fans, there is a replacement of singer or singer wasn't at his or hers vocal best, doing something, they boo. Especially now that they pay hundreds of dollars for the ticket. "
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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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Think
" 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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" The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. "
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Art
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" To walk across the street is a risk. "
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Street
" 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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She
Remember
" I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography. "
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Kind
Interest
" I'm a product of Russian culture, but I never felt it was my country. "
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Never
Culture
Felt
" I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people. "
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I Feel
Uneasy
People
" Working is living to me. "
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Living
Working
Me
" I cannot stand authority. "
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Cannot
Authority
Stand
" I like to make my own mistakes. "
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Mistakes
My Own
Make
" 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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People
You
Mature
" I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just interested in everything and she took me to opera and ballet, and then ballet got me hooked. "
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Me
Got
Remember
" I've always said, 'I am a selector, I am not defector' - the first few phrases in English I learned. I said I hate 'defector'; something defective about the people. It's a bad word. "
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Said
I Am
Always
" 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. "
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Celebrate
Never
Birthday
" Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity. "
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Lack
Maturity
Young
" No matter what I try to do or explore, my Kirov training, my expertise, and my background call me to return to dancing after all, because that's my real vocation, and I have to serve it. "
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Dancing
Try
Training
" Running a company is pretty demanding. "
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Demanding
Pretty
Running
" I cannot draw to save my life, and I'm not a big art scholar, but I worked with many designers throughout my career - in theater, in dance, costume designers, set designers, and I have a lot of artist friends and I do photography, and I think it's kind of in my life. "
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Art
Life
Dance
" 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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You
Music
" Dancers are made, not born. "
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Made
Dancers
Born
" Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important. "
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Successful
Me
Important
" I fell in love with New York. "
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New York
Fell
York
" I've been hurt quite a few times. "
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Hurt
Been
Times
" Dance is one of the most revealing art forms. "
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Art Forms
Revealing
Most
" 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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Brother
Kitchen
Me
" 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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Mother
People
Game
" Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already. "
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Dancers
Enough
Know