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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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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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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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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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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I love music and I love to dance.
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I just wanted to perform, to sing, dance and act.
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I'm very conscious that I want the dance audience to respond and respect what I'm doing, so I'm always very true to the music and I honour the music in the way I see it - I don't mess around with the music.
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I am an outsider looking in, absolutely. You're not going to see me at the Academy Awards 'Vanity Fair' party any time soon. I'm not somebody who, no matter where I go, there are paparazzi or any of that nonsense. But I have a little window into that world, and I can enter it and dance around. I want to be the audience's ticket into the party.
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There's no such thing as standing still and just singing a song. I love jumping into the crowd. I love to dance.
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A smile is the best way to get away with trouble even if it’s a fake one.
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Reserve the great matters till the end, and the small matters give at the beginning.
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Since childhood, I have been a cricket fanatic.
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A woman doesn't find it contradictory to complain about not having anything to wear and about not having enough closet space in the same conversation. You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.
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If your only dance experience is the Nutcracker, it will be a shock; hopefully shocking in a good way.
