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" When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR. "

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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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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" People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience. "

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

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

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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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" 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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