Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes
A country like Belgium, or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States, which is a really puzzling thought.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
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Leaving all the glamour and air-kissing aside, at the end of the day, fashion is about operations and getting things done. The best way to be successful, therefore, is to learn from the people who do it best.
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I was on Kanye's Yeezus tour as a dancer, but really, I was a Vanessa Beecroft model. I was one of the three 'dancers' who couldn't dance and was more of an accessory than an individual. Vanessa was pretty involved. Her style is about a lot of standing. It's very simple but haunting.
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Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.
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I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution.
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Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
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In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds.
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The 100m is never stressful.
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I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.
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I went to high school in a steel town in Pennsylvania.
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I'm an actor, paid to act. I don't bring personal problems to the sets. Dad taught me that.
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You know you've been around a long time when your stuntman says, 'Yeah, my grandfather doubled you.'
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As investors, we want to believe we are smart, insightful and uniquely talented - even though we often fail to do the heavy lifting, put in the long hours, and make the uncomfortable but necessary decisions to achieve success.
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Working is a great distraction technique.
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The comedies I have been in that have been successful were the ones where the set was the most tense. It seems that the comedies where you have a real nice time on the set, the film just sits there on the screen. Now that just may be the pictures I have made, I don't know.
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I am not a tall man.
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I know she would want me to still do what I'm doing, because she kept me going a lot of times when I'd almost lose interest in getting out on the road.
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In art there are tears that do often lie too deep for thoughts.
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A country like Belgium, or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States, which is a really puzzling thought.
