Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes
You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.
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I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie that I make.
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There are times when marriage is not such a comfortable place... But you find your way; you become a different person. You grow into it. And you have to work at marriage every day.
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I can stay up watching TV so late.
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Money has no moral opinions.
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When men or women make their work their top priority and become hostile to the normal, natural needs of their children and spouse - obviously, something is wrong.
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When you're a big money earner and your husband isn't, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was less feminine than if I was a supporting wife, or a second fiddle, or 'Mrs. Higgins.'
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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When you're 16, the top of the world is directing a gangster movie.
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I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
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It is a struggle for the minds of the people... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
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Fighting bitterness can be a full-time job.
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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have - 'What's going to happen to your child if you're not around?'
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There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.
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Will and Tommy Lee are the only actors I've ever worked with where neither of them want to say any lines.
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Everyone's really different. I've worked with women who I've never wanted to tell anything about myself to, and I've worked with guys who have been pouring wells of emotion. So emotional availability is not a gender-specific thing.
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I believe Michael [Jackson] in a sense is an American martyr. Martyrs are persecuted and Michael was persecuted. Michael was innocent and martyrs are innocent. If you go on YouTube and watch interviews with Michael, you don't see a crack in the facade. There's this purity and this innocence that continued [throughout his life].
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Mick Jagger is 70 and still singing 'Satisfaction' every concert. That would drive me insane.
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For the devil is better pleased with coarse blockheads and with folks who are useful to nobody; because where such characters abound, then things do not go on prosperously here on earth.
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You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.
