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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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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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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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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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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Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.
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I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what some would call crap, or you can work very modestly with eloquently moving results.
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I said what I said before Congress because I meant every word of it.
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For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer.
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A good sign for me, that I'm a good spot mentally, is when I'm super prolific. And I just wake up every day excited to make or replicate music in some way. That's really nice.
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If you don't expect to like someone and then you do, that's an incredibly exciting moment.
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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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I wonder what kind of lives they will have built for themselves when they turn 45 and can't really have any connection with people because they are so used to fleeting sexual.
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Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain.
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For a well-made cup of coffee is the proper beginning to an idle day. Its aroma is beguiling, its taste is sweet; yet it leaves behind only bitterness and regret. In that, it resembles, surely, the pleasures of love.
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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.
