Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes
When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.
Quotes to Explore
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Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.
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On issue after issue, the Obama Administration has openly ignored, defied, and unilaterally tried to change the law.
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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What is history but a fable agreed upon?
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I never believe them when they say that because you really have to sort of be aware of what's going on in the news in order to get the jokes on the show.
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I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.
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Mark Twain created a new type of literature and not a lot of people can say that. Not a lot of people can say they're absolutely original and completely self-made.
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The Israeli public's willingness to enlist, the warm embrace for the soldiers and the residents of the south, and the desire to contribute and to give at any given moment really warm the heart, and it gives all of us strength.
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I got a cold feeling toward religion in general. I don't think God would want to separate families.
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You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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I watched the first moon landing at a bar in Paducah, Kentucky, a fact worth mentioning only because I still remember how suddenly silence descended on this raucous place when Neil Armstrong started coming down that ladder.
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I have no big career plan. It is better for me that way.
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In the Marine Corps, everything had a purpose.
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I'm not interested in disposable music.
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I can afford to say what I wish.
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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.
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The man who practises unselfishness, who is genuinely interested in the welfare of others, who feels it a privilege to have the power to do a fellow-creature a kindness - even though polished manners and a gracious presence may be absent - will be an elevating influence wherever he goes.
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I've always just focused on the work, and I've just tried to be honest with the work. If the work speaks to people, fantastic.
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Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'
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The subject matter covered in Carmina stays pretty basic: love, lust, the pleasures of drinking and the heightened moods evoked by springtime. These primitive and persistently relevant themes are nicely camouflaged by the Latin and old German texts, so the listener can actually feign ignorance while listening to virtually X-rated lyrics. (Veni Veni Venias! Come, come come now!)The music itself toggles between huge forces and a single voice, juxtaposing majesty and intimacy with ease.
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She smoked because she craved something to do with her hands, that delicate interplay of light and cup and first inhale. Craved the repetition of it. It was so difficult sometimes to be still in a room, alone with oneself. To bare oneself to the lonely.
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When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.
