Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes
If your only dance experience is the Nutcracker, it will be a shock; hopefully shocking in a good way.
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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.
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The only way you know what it is to be a boxer is to be one.
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The hype man's job is to get everybody out of their seats and on the dance floor to have a good time.
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It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.
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Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.
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I was having a lot of people ask me to update 'The Shock Doctrine' and add a chapter about Trump.
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I've been fascinated by the Internet from the very start. In 2001, I had made a funny black-and-white film called 'How to Dance Properly,' a short video of me dancing to a Madonna song. I sent it to 17 of my friends on a Thursday, and by Monday, one million people a day were logging on to view it.
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I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those storytellers who have gone before and paved a way for me play in their stomping grounds. Doubtless those who want to be offended, will - allowing me to make them happy, too, which pleases me as much as it pleases them.
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For me it's a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport.
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It's funny because a lot of people that know me as a dancer, don't know that I'm a singer, and a lot of people that know I can sing don't know I can dance. And so, I feel like at some point I have to show them both and really be able to display it and showcase it, and put that out there.
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Our cultural capital has changed tremendously on its way into the twenty-first century. Manhattan has been secured and sanitized; it's smoke- and trans-fat-free. In the boroughs, many of the old jungles have been cleared as well.
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There is no surer token of a little mind than to imagine that anything in the way of physical labor is dishonoring.
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Don't hire for the sake of hiring. Hire because there is no other way to do what you want to do.
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What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.
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That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.
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'Polytechnique' changed everything in my way of working. I became an adult, really, during those five years. I didn't work on anything else but 'Polytechnique.'
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I used to break dance. I can do some good James Brown footwork. But now I think I've danced too much. My girlfriend made fun of me: 'Enough with the dancing.'
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Shooting at night in Los Angeles is amazing. The city shuts down at 10 P.M. every night, and a whole different cast of characters comes out.
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To work for months and months and months, you kind of spill blood and give your heart and soul to something, and then you just sort of let it out into the universe and hope that people like it. How you see it in your head is never how you see it on the screen, so it's almost like an out of body experience.
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It takes time for brown people and people of different ethnicities to get into the Hollywood world, which is predominantly Caucasian and African American.
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I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.
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If your only dance experience is the Nutcracker, it will be a shock; hopefully shocking in a good way.
