Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes
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Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood photos, and even all the clothes I've worn on tour, in videos and on album covers.
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I had dreams of winning Olivier Awards.
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I've never won many awards, I didn't get certificates for swimming or anything.
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I am happy with the response I am receiving for 'Kaabil.' Audiences' love is what we work for, after all.
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Awards mean absolutely nothing if you don't get it. If you do get it, they're the best thing in the world.
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I dress up for awards, but only if somebody else is going to pay for the clothes. And shop for them, too!
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I'm officially retired as the refuser of Academy Awards.
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I would love to get a Moonman! I'd put it next to my other awards. I don't have a cabinet right now; they're just kind of all around my flat, one next to the TV, one in the bedroom. So, I'd have to build a cabinet.
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Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
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It's nice to get your glad rags on for awards like the Baftas, but it doesn't happen all the time.
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We finally got on the front row of an awards show
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I still have certain goals that I want. Grammies... Other awards... an Oscar one day.
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That's always - that's been another dream of mine, to do a Broadway play. An award winning Broadway play.
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Awards shows mainly publicize the people giving the awards.
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Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
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Because Olivia Newton-John wasn't from Nashville, they didn't like her winning our awards. I've got no complaints.
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The last thing I want is to walk into my house after a long day and see all the Grammys and awards. It would make me feel weird.
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I can honestly say that I'm not a person who thinks about awards, as much I think about the work itself.
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My mother went to Radcliffe, and rather than just trying to get rich, she wanted to be a teacher and taught for over 30 years in the public schools. She's definitely got some war stories.
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I can go all over the world with Skype.
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First and last follow each other.
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I think the tools were always available, for decades and decades, to make your own film and be creative. I don't think people had to wait for YouTube to do this type of small project. YouTube, I think it's great. I have this idiotic satisfaction. And I think there's a bit of that in YouTube. You share, true, but it's centralized, and it's already sort of controlled. I'm more for something that's not a centralized medium. Like doing your own film and screening it yourself. You cannot control people doing that.
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I don't need all that much - I just need to know who my characters are and what kind of jam they're going to get into, and I'll write myself out of their jam.
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You don't measure life by receiving awards.
