Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes
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I get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I'm waiting in line like everybody else.
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I am not trying to do material which I cannot do full out.
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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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Nothing is ever too expensive if it furthers the repertoire and artistic standards of a dance company.
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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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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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I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.
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In the second part of life you get rid of stuff you've accumulated.
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It's what's left in life, to work with interesting people.
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I would like to go and dance in Palestine one day, with great pleasure, great pleasure.
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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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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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Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already.
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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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You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.
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No one is born a dancer. You have to want it more than anything.
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What people will do to get away from boredom!
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I like the most provocative and most surprising partnerships on stage. Intensity and surprise.
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To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices.
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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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He is a male butterfly without the wings - the same kind of grace of a very young horse, so angular.
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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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I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.