Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes
I like the most provocative and most surprising partnerships on stage. Intensity and surprise.
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Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.
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Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
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I look at WorldstarHipHop in the morning, Bossip, Global Grind, and everything in between, but it's all so quick, I don't even think about it. And I've never been a fan of lyrical or socially conscious rap music.
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Seeing a catering truck feels like home.
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Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?
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Falling in love, romance, matters of the heart - when you fall in love, on some biochemical level you know there is a chance it won't work out. It's ingrained in us that if you take such an enormous risk on someone with your heart that it might not pay off. I gamble all my chips and I might actually lose everything.
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It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.
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I am chairman of the Africa subcommittee in the House of Representatives.
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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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I would say Hope Solo is competitive.
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The beautiful thing about the NFL season is to see a team come together after they get to know each other in the spring and summer. You then go through adversity together and see how you respond. The teams that can respond in a positive way are the teams that are going to be there in the end.
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I've had my heart broken and then gone out and done dumb things.
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Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.
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I don't get hung up on weight.
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On my desk, I always have a lemon or a lime drying. I love the fragrance. Also, a Staedtler eraser, a brush for the eraser and a pencil sharpener.
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Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
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In high school, I played in a Rush cover band.
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You've got to bring yourself to any character you do.
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I love the magic of the studio.
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When I was younger, I started taking singing lessons and dance and acting. I just started acting first because that's how everything happened.
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It's all about the sensuality of movement, every movement you make. That's why I love doing action movies. It's all about movement, dance - even if you're hitting someone in the face. You've got to sell it all with great passion. There's a narrative to the body. It's exactly the same as dance.
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You just have to focus on what's really important in life, and that's your friends and your family and the life that you build.
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They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.
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I like the most provocative and most surprising partnerships on stage. Intensity and surprise.
