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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I love films that show people in a way that's so real it's almost unsettling, and that's what really inspires me because I write about people. I write about people that I know, so I want to portray them and portray myself in a way that is unapologetic.
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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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The Lord doesn't like us to be dead. Be alive. Sometimes I dance to the glory of the Lord, because He said so.
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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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The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task.
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I take my coffee like I take my women... strong... black... and proud.
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Each culture has some knowledge. That's why I studied with Saj Dev, an Indian flute player. That's why I studied Stockhausen's music. The pygmies' music of the rain forest is very rich music. So the knowledge is out there. And I also believe one should seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave. With that kind of inquisitiveness, one discovers things that were unknown before.
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We haven't developed a progressive vocabulary. We say something is "public," but we just mean it's viewable online. Or we say it's "open," but we just mean it's accessible. I would like for us to think about terms critically and maybe change our vocabulary a bit. What if pubic actually meant publicly-funded, or social meant socialized.
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If your only dance experience is the Nutcracker, it will be a shock; hopefully shocking in a good way.
