Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes

I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people.

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• How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?

  

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• I've been kind of toying around with the bi thing in my head. I wouldn't ever give myself the label 'bisexual', but bi-curious? Yea.

  

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• I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.

  

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• The muses visit when I'm lonely.

  

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• My Christian Louboutins are also one of the secrets to my not-for-profit success. Here's why - and it's something that everyone who manages employees, whether in a for-profit business or a not-for-profit, should keep in mind: A little extravagance goes a long way.

  

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• If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.

  

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• I've been around the bend in corporations.

  

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• Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

  

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• I have to be working, doing things. That's the way I grew up and the way I was taught.

  

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• When you write about sports, you're allowed to engage in mischief. Nothing is at stake.

  

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• Whenever I get on stage, I feel safe and in control. Life can be so uncertain, but on stage, I always know how a drama or crisis is going to end. Acting is a great comfort blanket and has gotten me through countless personal crises. I am a firm believer that the show must go on.

  

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• My children are my life. They're so spectacular.

  

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• Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.

  

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• My dad and my mom were big Nat King Cole fans, so they had everything he did.

  

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• Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.

  

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• The worst thing people ever say is that 'I can't afford to have kids!' It's selfish, and what infuriates me is when people say they can't do stuff they like go on holidays and buy cars when they have kids. You can - you find the money, you've just got to work harder for it.

  

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• She hopes for nothing except fine weather and a resolution. She wants to end properly, like a good sentence.

  

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• I think that talented people really do have insecurities, and that is one of the things that kind of motivates them, because that's one thing they know they're good at. And when they're up on that stage, you can do no wrong. The audience is yours; they're there to see you.

  

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• A celebrity has just as much right to speak out as people who hold real jobs. This is America, after all, and you should not be precluded from voicing your opinions just because you sing songs, mouth other peoples' words on a sitcom or, for that matter, spin a giant multi-colored wheel on a game show.

  

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• The way we deny death says something about how we live our lives, doesn't it? At least in Sweden or Scandinavia, you don't have to search further back in time than maybe three generations to find another way to relate to death. People then had a different, closer relationship with death; at least it was like that in the countryside.

  

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• I really envy, in some respects, some of the people of faith I've known - A.J.Muste, for example.

  

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• I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people.

  

  Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • People
  • Feels
  • Aspect