Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes
There comes a moment in a young artist's life when he knows he has to bring something to the stage from within himself. He has to put in something in order to be able to take something.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.
Walter Becker
China Crisis
I had decent but not great grades in high school because I was highly motivated in some subjects, like the arts, drama, English, and history, but in math and science I was a screw-up. Wooster saw something in me, and I really flourished there. I got into theatre, took photography and painting classes.
J. C. Chandor
The rules are all in a sixty-four-page pamphlet by Aristotle called 'Poetics.' It was written almost three thousand years ago, but I promise you, if something is wrong with what you're writing, you've probably broken one of Aristotle's rules.
Aaron Sorkin
The 'M*A*S*H' cast loves each other with unconditional love; our domestic animals love us with unconditional love.
Gary Burghoff
I think every woman in their life wants to give a good face smack.
Mallory Jansen
I have this habit to bow my head, as to look shorter, maybe as a result of an unconscious demand of not taking up so much space.
Karl Ove Knausgaard
That's why I think the 'Scarpetta' series has worked so well because people like spending time with this character.
Patricia Cornwell
I went to public school my whole life. It was a performing arts school, so I can't say if it was a typical experience or not, because it's all I know.
Eden Sher
Then he took me off Jeannie and he gave me Millie the Model. That was a big break for me. It wasn't doing to well and somehow when I got on it became quite successful.
Dan DeCarlo
Life is tragic and absurd, and none of it has any purpose at all.
T. C. Boyle
I had a weirdly awesome high-school experience.
Abbi Jacobson
I was living in Paris for, like, a year and a half, and I couldn't speak French, so it was just hard to get a baguette or a pastry or whatever. All the stores close at 6 o'clock, and they're not very into hospitality, so it's not a convenient city. It's so pretty, though, but I was raised in Tokyo, so it was hard to understand.
Tao Okamoto
My career has been over since 1990.
Mike Tyson
Genius inspires this thirst for fame: there is no blessing undesired by those to whom Heaven gave the means of winning it.
Madame de Stael
When, about fifteen years ago, I walked into Arshile's studio for the first time, the atmosphere was so beautiful that I got a little dizzy and when I came to, I was bright enough to take the hint immediately. If the bookkeepers think it necessary to make sure of where things and people came from, well then, I came from 36 Union Square. I am glad that it is about impossible to get away from his powerful influence.
Willem de Kooning
How prophetic L'Enfant was when he laid out Washington as a city that goes around in circles!
John Mason Brown
We, Homo sapiens, destroyed the majority of the large mammalian species in North America and Australasia just over 10,000 years ago. We, Homo sapiens, now are destroying the other species that presently exist on this planet at a rate of about 15,000 to 20,000 per year.
Michael Smith
There comes a moment in a young artist's life when he knows he has to bring something to the stage from within himself. He has to put in something in order to be able to take something.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
