Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes

It doesn't matter how high you lift your leg. The technique is about transparency, simplicity, making an earnest attempt.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

• Dance
• Simplicity
• Legs
• Transparency
• Earnest

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• My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.

  

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• One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.

  

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• I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.

  

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• A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.

  

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• It was really fascinating for everyone involved in 'Fargo' that Marge Gunderson became the iconic character she did. I think it was something about the cultural zeitgeist and what was happening with women in the workplace.

  

  Frances McDormand
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• Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.

  

  Nate Silver
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• I grew up during the Revolution of Iran and the war between Iran and Iraq. The things that I saw. The impact. How it changes you. How it changes the way you look at the world.

  

  Navid Negahban
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• The dialysis is to wash my blood, to keep my kidneys functioning.

  

  Natalie Cole
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• About 20 percent of the genetic information in your nose doesn't match anything that we've ever seen before.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
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• Good actresses can often accomplish miracles, and it is possible to be someone you've never been or will be. But in a sitcom, there's no time.

  

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• In a way, publishing in 2005 was similar to publishing in 1950. Nobody kept blogs; that was still optional. I didn't even have a website then.

  

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• I think everybody has a bent, and the key is to follow that bent. So much human wastage comes from people who are doing things with their lives that they really aren't happy with.

  

  J. Carter Brown
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• The Ku Klux Klan is the most profligate domestic terrorist organization in this country's history.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
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• I am arrogant enough to know that I am a good actor and people will like me for my work.

  

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• Khatami is a symptom and not the cause of change in Iran.

  

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• I loved 'Matilda.' The kids are so brilliant and uninhibited. They were inspiring. Seeing them onstage, just going wild, reminded me of when I was that age. I was excited for them and completely taken by their innocence and hard work.

  

  Matthew James Thomas
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• I'm finally dating. It's fun.

  

  Kristin Chenoweth
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• There is more to sex appeal than just measurements.

  

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• Beauty is a simple passion,but, oh my friends, in the endyou will dance the fire dance in iron shoes.

  

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• Ultimately, it doesn't matter to the world whether you paint or dance or write. The world will probably get by without the product of your efforts. But that is not the point. The point is what the inner process of following your creative impulses will do to you. It is clearly about process. Love the work, love the process. Our fascination will pull our attention forward. That, also, will fascinate the viewer.

  

  J. M. Roberts
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• I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.

  

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• I don't want to ever, ever give that kind of pain to one living mortal. And I will not give that thought power in my life. That's my practice.

  

  Caroline Myss
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• It doesn't matter how high you lift your leg. The technique is about transparency, simplicity, making an earnest attempt.

  

  Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • Dance
  • Simplicity
  • Legs