Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes
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I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.
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The first album I ever owned was 'A Star is Born.'
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Mozart was born Mozart. Charlie Parker was born Charlie Parker.
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It wasn't such a pleasant experience. We went through 14 hours with contractions every two minutes, no epidural, no nothing. Every two minutes, I would pass out. I went to the hospital on Saturday, and Levi was born on Monday.
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Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.
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We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
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I said 'no' to the 'Born Survivor' producer three times because I've never aspired to be a TV man.
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I love Memphis, I guess you could say, in the way that you love a brother even if he does sometimes puzzle and sadden and frustrate you. Say what you want about it, it's an authentic place. I was born and raised in Memphis, and no matter where I go, Memphis belongs to me, and I to it.
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I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy.
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I don't think my background in Zambia has really affected my lens because my classical training has been Western-style. But it's fantastically fortuitous to have been born African because I don't feel I have a vested interest to the U.S. or China or wherever.
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A person is born with a liking for profit.
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No one is born hating others.
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My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I should say.
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I was born naked. I'm a natural. I'm a natural nude. So I've been on camera naked a lot.
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The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed.
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Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.
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Someone born in Brazil is an American. Anyone born on the western hemisphere is an American. American is not a nationality.
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Dance was always part of my life because I was a dancer and my mother was a dancer, and I love the theater.
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Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
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No breed of cats in its proper condition can by any stretch of the imagination be thought of as even slightly ungraceful - a record against which must be pitted the depressing spectacle of impossibly flattened bulldogs, grotesquely elongated dachshunds, hideously shapeless and shaggy Airedales, and the like.
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Our greatest hope is for the experience of joy, and often we are not as smart as we think we are when it comes to predicting what would bring us that joy. . . Hope that is attached to a particular outcome is looking for pleasure but fishing for pain, because attachment itself is a source of pain. It is best to hope for an experience of life in all its fullness-a life that can embrace both joy and sorrow, and will still be at peace.
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Nobody is born a dancer.
