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.

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• 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
  • Writing
  • Broken
  • Promise

• The 'M*A*S*H' cast loves each other with unconditional love; our domestic animals love us with unconditional love.

  

  Gary Burghoff
  • Animals
  • Domestic
  • Unconditional

• I think every woman in their life wants to give a good face smack.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Life
  • Good
  • Woman

• 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
  • Up
  • Space
  • Look

• That's why I think the 'Scarpetta' series has worked so well because people like spending time with this character.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • People
  • Time
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• 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
  • Life
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• 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
  • Me
  • Model
  • Successful

• Life is tragic and absurd, and none of it has any purpose at all.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • Absurd

• I had a weirdly awesome high-school experience.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • School
  • Experience
  • High

• 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
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  • City
  • Year

• I very, very much want to be involved in helping those senators, congressmen, and women who support the principles that made America great.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Great
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  • America

• I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.

  

  Barry White
  • Truth
  • Knowledge
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• Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Life
  • Slavery
  • Shadows

• Neo-Darwinists ask us to believe in things not seen. We’re not supposed to have an established religion in America, but we do, and it’s called Darwinism.

  

  Ben Stein
  • Believe
  • America

• I've got more junk in the trunk than most 5-foot-1 blonde girls, and I like it.

  

  Kristen Bell
  • Blonde

• Not too many people in cocktail parties are aware of Bioprinting and growing organs, or the coming technological singularity; I've seen very little philosophical speculation about how far we can go, how much we could achieve.

  

  Jason Silva
  • People
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• I write emotional music.

  

  Les Baxter
  • Music
  • Emotional

• Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Future
  • Past
  • Present

• The ultimate lesson is that there is no immunity, no matter our age or the size of our retirement account, from going through constant cycles of integration and disintegration in which we are humbled and hopefully set to rights with the world again.

  

  David Whyte
  • World
  • Age
  • Retirement

• Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Real
  • Failure

• I love children, and most of my involvement now has to do with children or youth programs.

  

  David Dinkins
  • Children

• More a paraphrase than a quote, really, but it comes from a prayer which was stitched into a sampler above my grandmother's bed. It began like this: 'Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep...'

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Soul
  • Prayer
  • The Lord

• When I look back at the record and listen to it, I can sort of see where I was at when I was making it - these brief little moments, different places I was at emotionally.

  

  Washed Out
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• 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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