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" The Russian people get so insanely close to each other as friends. Their lives are interrelated so much on an everyday basis. "

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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" I'm an impatient person in many respects. I like to put myself in uncomfortable situations. It forces me to deliver. "

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" It's what's left in life, to work with interesting people. "

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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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" Film, theater and television always kind of scared me. I don't ever seriously think of myself as an actor at all, and I don't plan any film career or television career. "

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

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

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" I've been hurt quite a few times. "

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" Everything I do, it's a bit painterly. I like being surrounded by objects, mostly on paper. I like the images. I like the painting. I like good photography. It's something that makes me an emotional connection, and I feel comfortable around it. "

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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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" 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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" I would like to go and dance in Palestine one day, with great pleasure, great pleasure. "

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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 the second part of life you get rid of stuff you've accumulated. "

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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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" 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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