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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It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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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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I feel like love is the thing we were created for, yet it's the place we struggle the most.
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Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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All a writer wants is to be read, and people are so flattering and lovely. I mean, there are witches out there as well. But most are so kind.
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It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured.
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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.
