Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes
I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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We're here for a little, little bit of time, and I just wanna make the most out of it.
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We ignore our feelings a lot, I realize. Many of us have to... until they really bite us in the butt.
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He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.
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You're never going to hear me say, 'Well, I've been critical of Obama five times, so now I need to be critical of McCain five times.' That is a false equivalence, and that's what I think is wrong with journalism.
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Social media are a catalyst for the advancement of everyone's rights. It's where we're reminded that we're all human and all equal. It's where people can find and fight for a cause, global or local, popular or specialized, even when there are hundreds of miles between them.
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I don't have time to be depressed.
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I think, to me, the sheer joy of fancy dress is that it allows you to take a break from our very carefully considered and constructed identities.
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You're always going to be more judgmental about your own performance than anyone else.
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Boxing is what pays my bills.
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When I first got an outbreak of hives, I tried everything to find relief. I felt like no one understood what I was going through.
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I'm turning 30 years old this year ... it's better than 20, I'll tell you that. The lessons I've learned.
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'Baskets' isn't a CBS show. Nothing against that, but this is an off-kilter show on cable that the channel lets you do interesting things. Look, if it works, it works. And if it doesn't, it's just a miniseries.
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Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.
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I look at the effect that an individual's fame has on their family, for example, and the limitations that places upon your life to an extent - of course, it brings marvelous things too, but it brings them mainly to the individual. The people around the famous person often pay a price without reaping many of the rewards.
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My doctors say I am very healthy.
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We need to have faith in the future to make sense of the present.
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Daniel was a wonderful and trustworthy partner. And a fine prankster as well.
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Humans have trouble with economics, as you may have noticed, and not just because economic circumstances sometimes cause them to starve. Humans seem to have an innate inability to pay attention to economic principles.
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I found a way of working which pleased me because I didn’t have to frighten people with heavy equipment. It was that little black box and me.
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I tend to work best as a one-man Task Force, including even the roles of messenger, coffee maker and office cleaner.
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I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant.
