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" People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience. "
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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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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" 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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" My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War. "
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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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" A country like Belgium, or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States, which is a really puzzling thought. "
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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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" 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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" When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR. "
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" 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. "
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" Nobody else in the world has a form like the Native American musical, and Americans should be very proud. "
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" I'm a product of Russian culture, but I never felt it was my country. "
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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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" I fell in love with New York. It was like every human being, like any relationship. When I was a young New Yorker, it was one city. When I was a grown man, it was another city. I worked with many dance organizations and many wonderful people. "
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