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

  

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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.

  

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

  

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• The whole issue of how women's management styles are viewed is an incredibly interesting subject.

  

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• Comedy prepared me for drama. There are a couple techniques you can think of. One of my acting teachers said that comedy is like ping-pong, and drama is tennis. You take things a bit slower, so you do get to breathe more and take some more time.

  

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• Parents have got to chill out. Let your kid eat dirt - they're gonna be fine!

  

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• The Doobie Brothers' 'What a Fool Believes' makes me want to move. And I still haven't gotten over the Macarena. Who has?

  

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• Simplicity, for reasons that are a little bit obscure, is almost not pursued, at least in the academic world.

  

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• After engaging in acts of war against another nation, there exists a degree of uncertainty in terms of the enemy's reactions. War inspires an unpredictable psychology and evokes strong emotions that defy systems analysis quantification.

  

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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