Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes
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Nobody else in the world has a form like the Native American musical, and Americans should be very proud.
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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.
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When a body moves, it's the most revealing thing. Dance for me a minute, and I'll tell you who you are.
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I am not trying to do material which I cannot do full out.
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It's weird when you see pieces of choreography that were done for you 15 or 20 years ago and now they are being done by another dance company.
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Dance is an ephemeral, a fleeting art. To describe this momentum, every movement on stage, in words is virtually impossible.
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Nothing is ever too expensive if it furthers the repertoire and artistic standards of a dance company.
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You invest into the future, and that's how young people become human in best sense of it - through the great experience of listening a Müller symphony or to see a great play by Tennessee Williams, experience something in a ballet, in a film.
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In the second part of life you get rid of stuff you've accumulated.
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Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already.
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In opera tradition, when opera die-hard fans, there is a replacement of singer or singer wasn't at his or hers vocal best, doing something, they boo. Especially now that they pay hundreds of dollars for the ticket.
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I was never like, "collect, collect," like people who go to auctions. I never spent a serious amount of time because I don't have any time!
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Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered.
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It's what's left in life, to work with interesting people.
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To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices.
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I adored my mother, and I will always have extraordinary memories about her and remember her, and she opened the doors for me to appreciate arts.
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I like the most provocative and most surprising partnerships on stage. Intensity and surprise.
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I think I got disappointed over the years about New York, about the States. You know, sometimes you go and visit Europe and see good old socialism in its good part! You see public concern about art, and young people's participation and young faces in the audience.
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Perfection is a theory. You cannot be a perfect human being, perfect artist. You cannot be a perfect husband, you cannot be a perfect father probably and probably I am not. But go through your daily routine with hope you will be a little better in all respects, and do something meaningful
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No one is born a dancer. You have to want it more than anything.
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I would like to go and dance in Palestine one day, with great pleasure, great pleasure.
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I like to go to anybody else's birthday, and if I'm invited I'm a good guest. But I never celebrate my birthdays. I really don't care.
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What people will do to get away from boredom!
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My father was a Party member and he was a pretty high rank military officer under the colonel, junior colonel, I don't know the term. He was a total Stalinist. A bit with a streak of anti-Semitism and very shrewd man, a very kind of nervous man.