Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes
To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what you're doing in life-in my case, dancing.
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The rule of improvisation I took to heart was, 'Don't think.' I tend to over-think things, so that was a big lesson for me.
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The last album, 'Falling Faster Than You Can Run.' I was really proud of, but then I didn't actually know whether it was going to come out on any label at all. So I didn't know if anyone was going to hear it. Then of course we ended up doing another EP after that called 'Closer.'
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I don't see myself only as a Somali character. I think of myself as an actor, and if the job fits me and I like the story, I will go for it.
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I wouldn't compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don't feel like I am like any of them. Maybe stories are cool but my story is different from most people's story. I don't like to compare myself to other people, I like to just be me.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.
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Oh, I have to say Romana; she was much more fun to do but I did enjoy the Princess when she was turning bad.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
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The story of Noah, like other stories in the first 11 chapters of Genesis, are archetypal. Noah's story tells us that human beings have an inherent tendency towards violence both towards their fellow human beings and towards the creation itself. The story tells us that this violence grieves God.
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I don't like music docs, usually. There's nothing to really say. What can you say about music? Normally, you can't say too much. There are a few really good ones, but the majorities are boring, I think.
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Basically, me and Ed Sheeran are kind of Twitter friends – well, I say that. He probably just thinks I'm weird.
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You don't inherit cancer; you actually get it.
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I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.
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I think of myself as an actor.
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The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the stories to tell - but they're all formula.
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I like it when people make an effort to wear things that you wouldn't normally put together - I like eccentrics.
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There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.
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The hardest thing in the world to understand is income taxes.
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Families need families. Parents need to be parented. Grandparents, aunts, and uncles are back in fashion because they are necessary. Stresses on many families are out of proportion to anything two parents can handle.
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When the province of physical theory was extended to encompass microscopic phenomena through the creation of quantum mechanics, the concept of consciousness came to the fore again. It was not possible to formulate the laws of quantum mechanics in a fully consistent way without reference to the consciousness.
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Every minute I'm on the set, it's play time for me. I feel like I'm on the beach!
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To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what you're doing in life-in my case, dancing.
