Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes
I would like to go and dance in Palestine one day, with great pleasure, great pleasure.
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Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.
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Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.
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I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil's Tower and the Medicine Wheel. These places are important to me, because they've been made sacred by sacrifice, by the investment of blood and experience and story.
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I want to be an inspirational model. I want people to look at me and say, 'Wow, she looks healthy.'
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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
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The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.
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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'm more and more fascinated in my own work. I work from 10 A.M. until about 9 P.M., but it's not an obsession, it's a pleasure. There's never enough time.
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I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mass murder is humorous.
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Doing the sword fighting is like picking up a dance routine... I think dancing really helps with the picking up of it.
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
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I guess I just wasn't meant to dance.
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During 'Saturday Night Fever' at the end of the first act dance number I tried to perform a split-jump, only I can't do them so I ended up on my ass followed by the most unsightly backward roll out of it, followed by the cast falling over in laughter and a good portion of the audience too.
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You have to stay in shape for dance. I don't want to be too skinny, but I don't want to be overweight. I want to be in the middle.
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The challenge is maintaining your interest over a long career, as opposed to pushing hard with no longevity. I'm surprised that I've been able to dance as long as I have.
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He had not remembered her name, but he had seen her dance - had been carried away and fascinated by the supreme art that can make you forget art.
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Ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance. I love to draw and paint; I do ceramics and photography. I'm interested in a lot of creative stuff.
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'Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life.
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You can’t change the music of your soul.
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As a songwriter I hate this whole, 'If it's a sad song, it has to sound like a sad song thing.' And that goes all the way back to my days with the Format. I'm an insane narcissist, so if I have to get something off my chest, I'll get something off my chest.
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My brother Joseph, who is 14 years older than me, was already on his national military compulsory service when I was 4 years old, the age from which I remember myself.
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To be too dissatisfied with ourselves is a weakness. To be too satisfied with ourselves is a stupidity.
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I would like to go and dance in Palestine one day, with great pleasure, great pleasure.
