Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes

I never liked dance photography; it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived.

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• I'm pretty gross. When I talk I can be gross and crude.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Pretty
  • Talk
  • I Can

• For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Important
  • Children
  • Food

• I want to play for my country, play for everybody, and I want to be there. I just feel like I have so many feelings and I want to play in the Olympics and feel how special if I can win that tournament.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Country
  • Play
  • Feelings

• I've had my heart broken and then gone out and done dumb things.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Heart
  • Done
  • Broken

• Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Deep
  • Thought
  • Enjoy

• When you're adapting, you are working on someone else's problem that they have already solved. The work has been fine-tuned and read countless times, and you're just arriving at the end and taking what you want, so of course it is the regal way to moviemaking. Plays are just the ideal scripts - the structure is there and waiting for you.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Work
  • Waiting
  • End

• You know as a scientist that both were developed completely independently of each other in the laboratories. And only afterward were the political situations contrived out of which they could be justified.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • Political
  • You
  • Know

• Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Today
  • Simple
  • Perfection

• We see the world through the lens of all our experiences; that is a fundamental part of the human condition.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • World
  • Human
  • See

• Personally, I believe people who have a lots of memories are people who are living with zest.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • People
  • Believe
  • Memories

• I've made a lot of game-winners.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Game
  • Made
  • Lot

• I love 'Enter the Dragon,' and I love Japanese movies. I love Jackie Chan movies; they are my heroes.

  

  Rain
  • Movies
  • Heroes
  • Dragon

• Bitcoin has the potential to destroy credit cards and banks as we know it. Maybe that is a good thing or a bad thing, but I like the idea that if someone needs to remit payments, they can do it without being gouged.

  

  Garry Tan
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Credit

• FIFA should show the world that it is truly a global organisation.

  

  Chung Mong-joon
  • World

• People like Elizabeth Dole have given too much power to the special interests.

  

  Kay Hagan
  • People
  • Power

• I'm a romantic; you have to be to marry four times.

  

  Jay McInerney
  • Romantic

• Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you do, you'll be successful.

  

  Micheal Ray Stevenson
  • Success

• In the theatre, people talk. Talk, talk until the cows come home about journeys of discovery and about what Hazlitt thought of a line of Shakespeare. I can't stand it.

  

  Anthony Hopkins
  • People
  • Home
  • Theatre

• It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Up
  • Power
  • Leadership

• A friend is someone who knows you and loves you for what you were and who you are, and who also shares your hopes and dreams for who you can become.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Friend

• I used to throw on soundtracks, and orchestral stuff would be the only thing I could write to, maybe 'Dead Can Dance' or 'Cocteau Twins' or something. Mostly, it was movies scores that would kind of inspire me.

  

  Christopher McCulloch
  • Dance

• We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Writing
  • Beautiful
  • inspirational

• I never liked dance photography; it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived.

  

  Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • Dance
  • inspirational
  • Photograhy