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.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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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.
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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.
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I've had my heart broken and then gone out and done dumb things.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We see the world through the lens of all our experiences; that is a fundamental part of the human condition.
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Personally, I believe people who have a lots of memories are people who are living with zest.
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I've made a lot of game-winners.
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I love 'Enter the Dragon,' and I love Japanese movies. I love Jackie Chan movies; they are my heroes.
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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.
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FIFA should show the world that it is truly a global organisation.
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People like Elizabeth Dole have given too much power to the special interests.
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I'm a romantic; you have to be to marry four times.
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Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you do, you'll be successful.
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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.
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The moon is dark, and the gods dance in the night; there is terror in the sky, for upon the moon hath sunk an eclipse foretold in no books of men or of earth's gods.
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Everything I ever needed came out of a radio and a dashboard. My Mount Rushmore of what was cool came out of a radio - Trisha Yearwood, Patty Loveless, Mark Chesnutt.
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There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them.
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My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.
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I never liked dance photography; it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived.
