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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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 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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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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New York feels like the whole city is into dance music. That's not how it felt when I was younger. There was more of a hipster scene.
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Bollywood stars are versatile; they not only act, but each one has the dance skills of John Travolta in 'Saturday Night Fever.'
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I couldn't live without music. I experienced things through music in different countries where you cannot speak the same language, but the music and the dance relates everything.
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I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing "Funny Face" when I couldn't sing and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.
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God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.
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I would like to go and dance in Palestine one day, with great pleasure, great pleasure.
